mac80211: fix RX aggregation locking

The RX aggregation locking documentation was
wrong, which led Christian to also code the
timer timeout handling for it somewhat wrongly.

Fix the documentation, the two places that
need to hold the reorder lock across accesses
to the structure, and the debugfs code that
should just use RCU.

Also, remove acquiring the sta->lock across
reorder timeouts since it isn't necessary, and
change a few places to GFP_KERNEL because the
code path here doesn't need atomic allocations
as I noticed when reviewing all this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index b562d9b6a70..05f11302443 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -81,13 +81,14 @@ enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags {
  * @stop_initiator: initiator of a session stop
  * @tx_stop: TX DelBA frame when stopping
  *
- * This structure is protected by RCU and the per-station
- * spinlock. Assignments to the array holding it must hold
- * the spinlock, only the TX path can access it under RCU
- * lock-free if, and only if, the state has  the flag
- * %HT_AGG_STATE_OPERATIONAL set. Otherwise, the TX path
- * must also acquire the spinlock and re-check the state,
- * see comments in the tx code touching it.
+ * This structure's lifetime is managed by RCU, assignments to
+ * the array holding it must hold the aggregation mutex.
+ *
+ * The TX path can access it under RCU lock-free if, and
+ * only if, the state has the flag %HT_AGG_STATE_OPERATIONAL
+ * set. Otherwise, the TX path must also acquire the spinlock
+ * and re-check the state, see comments in the tx code
+ * touching it.
  */
 struct tid_ampdu_tx {
 	struct rcu_head rcu_head;
@@ -115,15 +116,13 @@ struct tid_ampdu_tx {
  * @rcu_head: RCU head used for freeing this struct
  * @reorder_lock: serializes access to reorder buffer, see below.
  *
- * This structure is protected by RCU and the per-station
- * spinlock. Assignments to the array holding it must hold
- * the spinlock.
+ * This structure's lifetime is managed by RCU, assignments to
+ * the array holding it must hold the aggregation mutex.
  *
- * The @reorder_lock is used to protect the variables and
- * arrays such as @reorder_buf, @reorder_time, @head_seq_num,
- * @stored_mpdu_num and @reorder_time from being corrupted by
- * concurrent access of the RX path and the expired frame
- * release timer.
+ * The @reorder_lock is used to protect the members of this
+ * struct, except for @timeout, @buf_size and @dialog_token,
+ * which are constant across the lifetime of the struct (the
+ * dialog token being used only for debugging).
  */
 struct tid_ampdu_rx {
 	struct rcu_head rcu_head;