The patch below does not apply to the 3.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 6863255bd0e48bc41ae5a066d5c771801e92735a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgrus...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:52:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211/mac80211: avoid state mishmash on deauth Avoid situation when we are on associate state in mac80211 and on disassociate state in cfg80211. This can results on crash during modules unload (like showed on this thread: http://marc.info/?t=134373976300001&r=1&w=2) and possibly other problems. Reported-by: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfranci...@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgrus...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index 1b49890..f8cd4cf 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -1218,6 +1218,7 @@ struct cfg80211_deauth_request { const u8 *ie; size_t ie_len; u16 reason_code; + bool local_state_change; }; /** diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index e714ed8..e510a33 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -3549,6 +3549,7 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, { struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd; u8 frame_buf[IEEE80211_DEAUTH_FRAME_LEN]; + bool tx = !req->local_state_change; mutex_lock(&ifmgd->mtx); @@ -3565,12 +3566,12 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, if (ifmgd->associated && ether_addr_equal(ifmgd->associated->bssid, req->bssid)) { ieee80211_set_disassoc(sdata, IEEE80211_STYPE_DEAUTH, - req->reason_code, true, frame_buf); + req->reason_code, tx, frame_buf); } else { drv_mgd_prepare_tx(sdata->local, sdata); ieee80211_send_deauth_disassoc(sdata, req->bssid, IEEE80211_STYPE_DEAUTH, - req->reason_code, true, + req->reason_code, tx, frame_buf); } diff --git a/net/wireless/mlme.c b/net/wireless/mlme.c index 8016fee..904a7f3 100644 --- a/net/wireless/mlme.c +++ b/net/wireless/mlme.c @@ -457,20 +457,14 @@ int __cfg80211_mlme_deauth(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, .reason_code = reason, .ie = ie, .ie_len = ie_len, + .local_state_change = local_state_change, }; ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev); - if (local_state_change) { - if (wdev->current_bss && - ether_addr_equal(wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, bssid)) { - cfg80211_unhold_bss(wdev->current_bss); - cfg80211_put_bss(&wdev->current_bss->pub); - wdev->current_bss = NULL; - } - + if (local_state_change && (!wdev->current_bss || + !ether_addr_equal(wdev->current_bss->pub.bssid, bssid))) return 0; - } return rdev->ops->deauth(&rdev->wiphy, dev, &req); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
