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From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/12] iwlagn: fix dangling scan request
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:14:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316729700-1770-7-git-send-email-wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316729700-1770-1-git-send-email-wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

If iwl_scan_initiate() fails for any reason,
priv->scan_request and priv->scan_vif are left
dangling. This can lead to a crash later when
iwl_bg_scan_completed() tries to run a pending
scan request.

In practice, this seems to be very rare due to
the STATUS_SCANNING check earlier. That check,
however, is wrong -- it should allow a scan to
be queued when a reset/roc scan is going on.
When a normal scan is already going on, a new
one can't be issued by mac80211, so that code
can be removed completely. I introduced this
bug when adding off-channel support in commit
266af4c745952e9bebf687dd68af58df553cb59d.

Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Reported-by: Peng Yan <peng.yan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
index 07af6ec..74204ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
@@ -874,31 +874,33 @@ int iwl_mac_hw_scan(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 
 	mutex_lock(&priv->shrd->mutex);
 
-	if (test_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->shrd->status) &&
-	    priv->scan_type != IWL_SCAN_NORMAL) {
-		IWL_DEBUG_SCAN(priv, "Scan already in progress.\n");
-		ret = -EAGAIN;
-		goto out_unlock;
-	}
-
-	/* mac80211 will only ask for one band at a time */
-	priv->scan_request = req;
-	priv->scan_vif = vif;
-
 	/*
 	 * If an internal scan is in progress, just set
 	 * up the scan_request as per above.
 	 */
 	if (priv->scan_type != IWL_SCAN_NORMAL) {
-		IWL_DEBUG_SCAN(priv, "SCAN request during internal scan\n");
+		IWL_DEBUG_SCAN(priv,
+			       "SCAN request during internal scan - defer\n");
+		priv->scan_request = req;
+		priv->scan_vif = vif;
 		ret = 0;
-	} else
+	} else {
+		priv->scan_request = req;
+		priv->scan_vif = vif;
+		/*
+		 * mac80211 will only ask for one band at a time
+		 * so using channels[0] here is ok
+		 */
 		ret = iwl_scan_initiate(priv, vif, IWL_SCAN_NORMAL,
 					req->channels[0]->band);
+		if (ret) {
+			priv->scan_request = NULL;
+			priv->scan_vif = NULL;
+		}
+	}
 
 	IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "leave\n");
 
-out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&priv->shrd->mutex);
 
 	return ret;
-- 
1.7.0.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-22 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-22 22:14 [PATCH 00/12] update for 3.2 Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 01/12] MAINTAINERS: update iwlwifi Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 02/12] iwlagn: set the sequence control from the transport layer Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 03/12] iwlagn: add debugging to show probe related info in scan notification Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 04/12] iwlagn: update rate scaling with BA notifications Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 05/12] iwlagn: use kcalloc when possible for array allocation Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` Wey-Yi Guy [this message]
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 07/12] iwlagn: fix slot programming Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 08/12] iwlagn: remove Kelvin support Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 09/12] iwlagn: make iwl_scan_cancel_timeout void Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 10/12] iwlagn: refactor scan complete Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:14 ` [PATCH 11/12] iwlagn: move iwl_process_scan_complete up Wey-Yi Guy
2011-09-22 22:15 ` [PATCH 12/12] iwlagn: fix scan complete processing Wey-Yi Guy

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