From db4d1169d0b893bfb7923b6526748fe2c5a7373f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:27:45 +0100 Subject: mac80211: split ieee80211_key_alloc/free In order to RCU-ify sta_info, we need to be able to allocate a key without linking it to an sdata/sta structure (because allocation cannot be done in an rcu critical section). This patch splits up ieee80211_key_alloc() and updates all users appropriately. While at it, this patch fixes a number of race conditions such as finally making key replacement atomic, unfortunately at the expense of more complex code. Note that this patch documents /existing/ bugs with sta info and key interaction, there is currently a race condition when a sta info is freed without holding the RTNL. This will finally be fixed by a followup patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211/sta_info.c') diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c index c6c0df4bbd2c..e384e6632d97 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ void sta_info_free(struct sta_info *sta) #endif /* CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG */ ieee80211_key_free(sta->key); - sta->key = NULL; + WARN_ON(sta->key); if (local->ops->sta_notify) { struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; -- cgit v1.2.1