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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Liang Li <liang.li@windriver.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Subject: [ 41/44] cfg80211: fix interface combinations check for ADHOC(IBSS)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:02:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813220145.760434381@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813220142.113186818@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------


From: Liang Li <liang.li@windriver.com>

partial of commit 8e8b41f9d8c8e63fc92f899ace8da91a490ac573 upstream.

As part of commit 463454b5dbd8 ("cfg80211: fix interface
combinations check"), this extra check was introduced:

       if ((all_iftypes & used_iftypes) != used_iftypes)
               goto cont;

However, most wireless NIC drivers did not advertise ADHOC in
wiphy.iface_combinations[i].limits[] and hence we'll get -EBUSY
when we bring up a ADHOC wlan with commands similar to:

 # iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc && ifconfig wlan0 up

In commit 8e8b41f9d8c8e ("cfg80211: enforce lack of interface
combinations"), the change below fixes the issue:

       if (total == 1)
               return 0;

But it also introduces other dependencies for stable. For example,
a full cherry pick of 8e8b41f9d8c8e would introduce additional
regressions unless we also start cherry picking driver specific
fixes like the following:

  9b4760e  ath5k: add possible wiphy interface combinations
  1ae2fc2  mac80211_hwsim: advertise interface combinations
  20c8e8d  ath9k: add possible wiphy interface combinations

And the purpose of the 'if (total == 1)' is to cover the specific
use case (IBSS, adhoc) that was mentioned above. So we just pick
the specific part out from 8e8b41f9d8c8e here.

Doing so gives stable kernels a way to fix the change introduced
by 463454b5dbd8, without having to make cherry picks specific to
various NIC drivers.

Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.li@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/wireless/util.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -975,6 +975,9 @@ int cfg80211_can_change_interface(struct
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&rdev->devlist_mtx);
 
+	if (total == 1)
+		return 0;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < rdev->wiphy.n_iface_combinations; i++) {
 		const struct ieee80211_iface_combination *c;
 		struct ieee80211_iface_limit *limits;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 22:02 [ 00/44] 3.0.41-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 01/44] [IA64] Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 02/44] SUNRPC: return negative value in case rpcbind client creation error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 03/44] nilfs2: fix deadlock issue between chcp and thaw ioctls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 04/44] pcdp: use early_ioremap/early_iounmap to access pcdp table Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 05/44] mm: fix wrong argument of migrate_huge_pages() in soft_offline_huge_page() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 06/44] ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15 14:02   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 07/44] ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-14 20:01   ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-15 14:05     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15 14:50       ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 08/44] ARM: 7478/1: errata: extend workaround for erratum #720789 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 09/44] ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 10/44] ALSA: hda - remove quirk for Dell Vostro 1015 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-14  5:17   ` David Henningsson
2012-08-14  5:43     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-15 14:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 11/44] mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 12/44] mac80211: cancel mesh path timer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 13/44] x86, nops: Missing break resulting in incorrect selection on Intel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 14/44] random: Add support for architectural random hooks Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 15/44] fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 16/44] random: Use arch_get_random_int instead of cycle counter if avail Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 17/44] random: Use arch-specific RNG to initialize the entropy store Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 18/44] random: Adjust the number of loops when initializing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 19/44] drivers/char/random.c: fix boot id uniqueness race Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 20/44] random: make add_interrupt_randomness() do something sane Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 21/44] random: use lockless techniques in the interrupt path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 22/44] random: create add_device_randomness() interface Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 23/44] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 24/44] net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 25/44] random: use the arch-specific rng in xfer_secondary_pool Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 26/44] random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 27/44] random: add tracepoints for easier debugging and verification Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 28/44] MAINTAINERS: Theodore Tso is taking over the random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 29/44] rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 30/44] mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 31/44] random: remove rand_initialize_irq() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 32/44] random: Add comment to random_initialize() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 33/44] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 34/44] random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 35/44] x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15  0:26   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-08-15 14:06     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15 16:30       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-08-15 18:26         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 37/44] mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 38/44] ARM: mxs: Remove MMAP_MIN_ADDR setting from mxs_defconfig Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 39/44] ARM: pxa: remove irq_to_gpio from ezx-pcap driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 40/44] cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 42/44] e1000e: NIC goes up and immediately goes down Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 43/44] Input: wacom - Bamboo One 1024 pressure fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 44/44] rt61pci: fix NULL pointer dereference in config_lna_gain Greg Kroah-Hartman

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