Re: [PATCHv3] mac80211: deinitialize ibss-internals after emptiness check

[Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>]

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Whoops, there was actually never a version one or two posted here ...
Please consider this version 1.

Sorry,
	Simon

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:43:03PM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> The check whether the IBSS is active and can be removed should be
> performed before deinitializing the fields used for the check/search.
> Otherwise, the configured BSS will not be found and removed properly.
> 
> To make it more clear for the future, rename sdata->u.ibss to the
> local pointer ifibss which is used within the checks.
> 
> This behaviour was introduced by
> f3209bea110cade12e2b133da8b8499689cb0e2e
> ("mac80211: fix IBSS teardown race")
> 
> Cc: Ignacy Gawedzki <i@lri.fr>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/ibss.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
> index c7386b2..67774b0 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
> @@ -1156,10 +1156,6 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_leave(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&sdata->u.ibss.mtx);
>  
> -	sdata->u.ibss.state = IEEE80211_IBSS_MLME_SEARCH;
> -	memset(sdata->u.ibss.bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN);
> -	sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len = 0;
> -
>  	active_ibss = ieee80211_sta_active_ibss(sdata);
>  
>  	if (!active_ibss && !is_zero_ether_addr(ifibss->bssid)) {
> @@ -1180,6 +1176,10 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_leave(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	ifibss->state = IEEE80211_IBSS_MLME_SEARCH;
> +	memset(ifibss->bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN);
> +	ifibss->ssid_len = 0;
> +
>  	sta_info_flush(sdata->local, sdata);
>  
>  	spin_lock_bh(&ifibss->incomplete_lock);
> -- 
> 1.7.10
> 
> 

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