mac80211: fix scan race, simplify code
The scan code has a race that Michael reported
he ran into, but it's easy to fix while at the
same time simplifying the code.
The race resulted in the following warning:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:310 ieee80211_rx_bss_free+0x20c/0x4b8 [mac80211]()
Modules linked in: [...]
[<c0033edc>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [<c004f2a4>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64)
[... backtrace wasn't useful ...]
Reported-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index 8429545..489b6ad 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -258,10 +258,12 @@
return true;
}
-static bool __ieee80211_scan_completed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool aborted,
+static void __ieee80211_scan_completed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool aborted,
bool was_hw_scan)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
+ bool on_oper_chan;
+ bool enable_beacons = false;
lockdep_assert_held(&local->mtx);
@@ -275,12 +277,12 @@
aborted = true;
if (WARN_ON(!local->scan_req))
- return false;
+ return;
if (was_hw_scan && !aborted && ieee80211_prep_hw_scan(local)) {
int rc = drv_hw_scan(local, local->scan_sdata, local->hw_scan_req);
if (rc == 0)
- return false;
+ return;
}
kfree(local->hw_scan_req);
@@ -294,26 +296,11 @@
local->scanning = 0;
local->scan_channel = NULL;
- return true;
-}
-
-static void __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
- bool was_hw_scan)
-{
- struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
- bool on_oper_chan;
- bool enable_beacons = false;
-
- mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
on_oper_chan = ieee80211_cfg_on_oper_channel(local);
- WARN_ON(local->scanning & (SCAN_SW_SCANNING | SCAN_HW_SCANNING));
-
- if (was_hw_scan || !on_oper_chan) {
- if (WARN_ON(local->scan_channel))
- local->scan_channel = NULL;
+ if (was_hw_scan || !on_oper_chan)
ieee80211_hw_config(local, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_CHANNEL);
- } else
+ else
/* Set power back to normal operating levels. */
ieee80211_hw_config(local, 0);
@@ -331,7 +318,6 @@
}
ieee80211_recalc_idle(local);
- mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
ieee80211_mlme_notify_scan_completed(local);
ieee80211_ibss_notify_scan_completed(local);
@@ -686,12 +672,14 @@
{
struct ieee80211_local *local =
container_of(work, struct ieee80211_local, scan_work.work);
- struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = local->scan_sdata;
+ struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
unsigned long next_delay = 0;
- bool aborted, hw_scan, finish;
+ bool aborted, hw_scan;
mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
+ sdata = local->scan_sdata;
+
if (test_and_clear_bit(SCAN_COMPLETED, &local->scanning)) {
aborted = test_and_clear_bit(SCAN_ABORTED, &local->scanning);
goto out_complete;
@@ -755,17 +743,11 @@
} while (next_delay == 0);
ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(&local->hw, &local->scan_work, next_delay);
- mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
- return;
+ goto out;
out_complete:
hw_scan = test_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
- finish = __ieee80211_scan_completed(&local->hw, aborted, hw_scan);
- mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
- if (finish)
- __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish(&local->hw, hw_scan);
- return;
-
+ __ieee80211_scan_completed(&local->hw, aborted, hw_scan);
out:
mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
}
@@ -835,7 +817,6 @@
void ieee80211_scan_cancel(struct ieee80211_local *local)
{
bool abortscan;
- bool finish = false;
/*
* We are only canceling software scan, or deferred scan that was not
@@ -855,14 +836,17 @@
mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
abortscan = local->scan_req && !test_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
- if (abortscan)
- finish = __ieee80211_scan_completed(&local->hw, true, false);
- mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
-
if (abortscan) {
- /* The scan is canceled, but stop work from being pending */
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&local->scan_work);
+ /*
+ * The scan is canceled, but stop work from being pending.
+ *
+ * If the work is currently running, it must be blocked on
+ * the mutex, but we'll set scan_sdata = NULL and it'll
+ * simply exit once it acquires the mutex.
+ */
+ cancel_delayed_work(&local->scan_work);
+ /* and clean up */
+ __ieee80211_scan_completed(&local->hw, true, false);
}
- if (finish)
- __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish(&local->hw, false);
+ mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
}