Re: [PATCH 1/4] mac80211: OCB mode + join and leave handling

[Rostislav Lisovy <lisovy@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 18:33 +0200, Rostislav Lisovy wrote:
> > > +   mutex_lock(&sdata->local->mtx);
> > > +   ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
> > > +   mutex_unlock(&sdata->local->mtx);
> > > +
> > > +   skb_queue_purge(&sdata->skb_queue);
> > > +
> > > +   del_timer_sync(&sdata->u.ocb.housekeeping_timer);
> > 
> > That might call the timer - is it safe if that happens here? Looks like
> > maybe the housekeeping would still get triggered or so.
> 
> You are right. I hope the following is a reasonable solution (in form of
> a patch to my previous patch; comment stolen from some prehistoric
> version of mesh.c):
> 
> @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ void ieee80211_ocb_work(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>         struct ieee80211_if_ocb *ifocb = &sdata->u.ocb;
>         struct sta_info *sta;
>  
> +       if (!netif_running(sdata->dev))
> +               return;
> +
>         sdata_lock(sdata);
>  
>         spin_lock_bh(&ifocb->incomplete_lock);
> @@ -229,6 +232,13 @@ int ieee80211_ocb_leave(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>         skb_queue_purge(&sdata->skb_queue);
>  
>         del_timer_sync(&sdata->u.ocb.housekeeping_timer);
> +       /*
> +        * If the timer fired while we waited for it, it will have
> +        * requeued the work. Now the work will be running again
> +        * but will not rearm the timer again because it checks
> +        * whether the interface is running, which, at this point,
> +        * it no longer is.
> +        */
>  
>         return 0;
>  }

Now I realized it is not that easy (and I confused "interface running"
and being "connected to the network"). There seems not to be a solid
indication that we are no longer "connected" to the network.
I think a field
	enum {
		IEEE80211_OCB_STOPPED,
		IEEE80211_OCB_JOINED,
	} state;
in struct ieee80211_if_ocb seems to be appropriate.

Best regards;
Rostislav