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Commit adbde344 authored by Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan's avatar Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan Committed by John W. Linville
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cfg80211: Fix race in bss timeout


It is quite possible to run into a race in bss timeout where
the drivers see the bss entry just before notifying cfg80211
of a roaming event but it got timed out by the time rdev->event_work
got scehduled from cfg80211_wq. This would result in the following
WARN-ON() along with the failure to notify the user space of
the roaming. The other situation which is happening with ath6kl
that runs into issue is when the driver reports roam to same AP
event where the AP bss entry already got expired. To fix this,
move cfg80211_get_bss() from __cfg80211_roamed() to cfg80211_roamed().

[158645.538384] WARNING: at net/wireless/sme.c:586
__cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1()
[158645.538810] Call Trace:
[158645.538838]  [<c1033527>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a
[158645.538917]  [<c14cfacf>] ? __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1
[158645.538946]  [<c103354b>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13
[158645.539055]  [<c14cfacf>] __cfg80211_roamed+0xc2/0x1b1
[158645.539086]  [<c14beb5b>] cfg80211_process_rdev_events+0x153/0x1cc
[158645.539166]  [<c14bd57b>] cfg80211_event_work+0x26/0x36
[158645.539195]  [<c10482ae>] process_one_work+0x219/0x38b
[158645.539273]  [<c14bd555>] ? wiphy_new+0x419/0x419
[158645.539301]  [<c10486cb>] worker_thread+0xf6/0x1bf
[158645.539379]  [<c10485d5>] ? rescuer_thread+0x1b5/0x1b5
[158645.539407]  [<c104b3e2>] kthread+0x62/0x67
[158645.539484]  [<c104b380>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x42/0x42
[158645.539514]  [<c151309a>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd

Reported-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent fb03c5eb
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