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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2008-02-25 16:27:46 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-03-06 15:30:46 -0500
commitd0709a65181beb787ef3f58cfe45536a2bb254c8 (patch)
tree29e5f36583b0e0a3f11b291347e57672eab41dad /net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
parent5cf121c3cdb955583bf0c5d28c992b7968a4aa1a (diff)
mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access
This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is now somewhat understandable. This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under RTNL and frees the key. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c b/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
index bcc541d4b95c..4f72fdca7f12 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static void rate_control_rate_inc(struct ieee80211_local *local,
int i = sta->txrate_idx;
int maxrate;
- sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(sta->dev);
+ sdata = sta->sdata;
if (sdata->bss && sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx > -1) {
/* forced unicast rate - do not change STA rate */
return;
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static void rate_control_rate_dec(struct ieee80211_local *local,
struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
int i = sta->txrate_idx;
- sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(sta->dev);
+ sdata = sta->sdata;
if (sdata->bss && sdata->bss->force_unicast_rateidx > -1) {
/* forced unicast rate - do not change STA rate */
return;
@@ -118,10 +118,12 @@ static void rate_control_simple_tx_status(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
struct sta_info *sta;
struct sta_rate_control *srctrl;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
if (!sta)
- return;
+ goto unlock;
srctrl = sta->rate_ctrl_priv;
srctrl->tx_num_xmit++;
@@ -191,7 +193,8 @@ static void rate_control_simple_tx_status(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
}
}
- sta_info_put(sta);
+ unlock:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
@@ -208,6 +211,8 @@ rate_control_simple_get_rate(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
int rateidx;
u16 fc;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+
sta = sta_info_get(local, hdr->addr1);
/* Send management frames and broadcast/multicast data using lowest
@@ -216,8 +221,7 @@ rate_control_simple_get_rate(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
if ((fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FTYPE) != IEEE80211_FTYPE_DATA ||
is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1) || !sta) {
sel->rate = rate_lowest(local, sband, sta);
- if (sta)
- sta_info_put(sta);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return;
}
@@ -233,7 +237,7 @@ rate_control_simple_get_rate(void *priv, struct net_device *dev,
sta->last_txrate_idx = rateidx;
- sta_info_put(sta);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
sel->rate = &sband->bitrates[rateidx];
}