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| author | Liang Li <liang.li@windriver.com> | 2012-08-02 18:55:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-08-15 12:04:30 -0700 |
| commit | 4f5a5866aa4dccf42b2fa1cdecf372025a3e86cc (patch) | |
| tree | 794c2e3fe2fd1f99a94439f6c260186c0bde779f /net/wireless | |
| parent | b27c59d2c23d5f326a74e02a799cc4d00246165a (diff) | |
cfg80211: fix interface combinations check for ADHOC(IBSS)
partial of commit 8e8b41f9d8c8e63fc92f899ace8da91a490ac573 upstream.
As part of commit 463454b5dbd8 ("cfg80211: fix interface
combinations check"), this extra check was introduced:
if ((all_iftypes & used_iftypes) != used_iftypes)
goto cont;
However, most wireless NIC drivers did not advertise ADHOC in
wiphy.iface_combinations[i].limits[] and hence we'll get -EBUSY
when we bring up a ADHOC wlan with commands similar to:
# iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc && ifconfig wlan0 up
In commit 8e8b41f9d8c8e ("cfg80211: enforce lack of interface
combinations"), the change below fixes the issue:
if (total == 1)
return 0;
But it also introduces other dependencies for stable. For example,
a full cherry pick of 8e8b41f9d8c8e would introduce additional
regressions unless we also start cherry picking driver specific
fixes like the following:
9b4760e ath5k: add possible wiphy interface combinations
1ae2fc2 mac80211_hwsim: advertise interface combinations
20c8e8d ath9k: add possible wiphy interface combinations
And the purpose of the 'if (total == 1)' is to cover the specific
use case (IBSS, adhoc) that was mentioned above. So we just pick
the specific part out from 8e8b41f9d8c8e here.
Doing so gives stable kernels a way to fix the change introduced
by 463454b5dbd8, without having to make cherry picks specific to
various NIC drivers.
Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.li@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/util.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c index 4d69149eef2..18e22bef386 100644 --- a/net/wireless/util.c +++ b/net/wireless/util.c @@ -975,6 +975,9 @@ int cfg80211_can_change_interface(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, } mutex_unlock(&rdev->devlist_mtx); + if (total == 1) + return 0; + for (i = 0; i < rdev->wiphy.n_iface_combinations; i++) { const struct ieee80211_iface_combination *c; struct ieee80211_iface_limit *limits; |