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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-07-13 10:55:38 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-10 10:54:12 -0700
commitd3ae12acd666aadac7834b0389e4a15046aa4132 (patch)
tree7c117673c3cb068f95a153d07742483f0f29cff6 /net
parent512a9dbfd62bea0a8b9ec5654288e2f0336c7416 (diff)
cfg80211: don't get expired BSSes
commit ccb6c1360f8dd43303c659db718e7e0b24175db5 upstream. When kernel-internal users use cfg80211_get_bss() to get a reference to a BSS struct, they may end up getting one that would have been removed from the list if there had been any userspace access to the list. This leads to inconsistencies and problems. Fix it by making cfg80211_get_bss() ignore BSSes that cfg80211_bss_expire() would remove. Fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180 Reported-by: Jiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com> Tested-by: Jiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/scan.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index a026c6d56bd..01630707016 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,
{
struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
struct cfg80211_internal_bss *bss, *res = NULL;
+ unsigned long now = jiffies;
spin_lock_bh(&dev->bss_lock);
@@ -283,6 +284,10 @@ struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,
continue;
if (channel && bss->pub.channel != channel)
continue;
+ /* Don't get expired BSS structs */
+ if (time_after(now, bss->ts + IEEE80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE) &&
+ !atomic_read(&bss->hold))
+ continue;
if (is_bss(&bss->pub, bssid, ssid, ssid_len)) {
res = bss;
kref_get(&res->ref);