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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-11-01 19:25:40 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-11-02 15:14:07 -0500
commitc1f9a764cf47686b1f5a0cf87ada68d90056136a (patch)
tree77bff7f1361deb11e1b3c60470d9d5784c00a771 /net/mac80211
parent7400f42e9d765fa0656b432f3ab1245f9710f190 (diff)
mac80211: check interface is down before type change
For some strange reason the netif_running() check ended up after the actual type change instead of before, potentially causing all kinds of problems if the interface is up while changing the type; one of the problems manifests itself as a warning: WARNING: at net/mac80211/iface.c:651 ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211]() Hardware name: Aspire one Pid: 2596, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G W 2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu Call Trace: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [] ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211] [] ieee80211_if_change_type+0x4a/0xc0 [mac80211] [] ieee80211_change_iface+0x61/0xa0 [mac80211] [] cfg80211_wext_siwmode+0xc7/0x120 [cfg80211] [] ioctl_standard_call+0x58/0xf0 (http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ieee80211_teardown_sdata) Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/cfg.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 5608f6c68413..7b5131bd6fa1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static int ieee80211_change_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
int ret;
+ if (netif_running(dev))
+ return -EBUSY;
+
if (!nl80211_type_check(type))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -81,9 +84,6 @@ static int ieee80211_change_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy,
if (ret)
return ret;
- if (netif_running(sdata->dev))
- return -EBUSY;
-
if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif) && params->mesh_id_len)
ieee80211_sdata_set_mesh_id(sdata,
params->mesh_id_len,