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mac80211: fix ibss race

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When a scan completes, we call ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(),
which is also called from other places. When the scan was
done in software, there's no problem as both run from the
single-threaded mac80211 workqueue and are thus serialised
against each other, but with hardware scan the completion
can be in a different context and race against callers of
this function from the workqueue (e.g. due to beacon RX).
So instead of calling ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() directly,
just arm the timer and have it fire, scheduling the work,
which will invoke ieee80211_sta_find_ibss() (if that is
appropriate in the current state).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg 2009-10-11 11:47:57 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 5e4708bcb5
commit 51f98f1313
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@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ void ieee80211_ibss_notify_scan_completed(struct ieee80211_local *local)
if (!sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len)
continue;
sdata->u.ibss.last_scan_completed = jiffies;
ieee80211_sta_find_ibss(sdata);
mod_timer(&sdata->u.ibss.timer, 0);
}
mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
}