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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: Support dynamic AP mode channel width changes
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:46:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1398699982.4132.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQ=gP49PDuyYovQmc-jtFwKN6JDOToSsT20ssnJZGaqieQ@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20140428_105724_959492_6ACA3997)

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 10:57 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:

> > +static int ieee80211_set_ap_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy,
> > +                                   struct net_device *dev,
> > +                                   struct cfg80211_chan_def *chandef)
> > +{
> > +       struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
> > +       int ret;
> > +       u32 changed = 0;
> > +
> 
> Shouldn't interface combinations be verified here? What if there was a
> bandwidth upgrade (after a downgrade) but in the meantime a vif with a
> to-be incompatible chandef was brought up?

Yeah that seems like a potential issue.

> I think the existing usage
> of ieee80211_vif_change_bandwidth() in ieee80211_config_bw() already
> suffers from this problem or am I missing something?

That sounds like you're arguing it should be fixed in a separate patch
to ieee80211_vif_change_bandwidth()? :)

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-28  8:22 [PATCH 2/3] mac80211: Support dynamic AP mode channel width changes Jouni Malinen
2014-04-28  8:57 ` Michal Kazior
2014-04-28 15:46   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-04-28 15:47     ` Johannes Berg
2014-04-29  6:00       ` Michal Kazior

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