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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2010-07-13 10:55:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-08-10 10:20:43 -0700 |
| commit | 001632030b5d98ac56c65416a884a90a33a40097 (patch) | |
| tree | 4300c3974757487d82565af9b6d5ad5024c92b11 /net | |
| parent | e876eab4b7f0f5afd1e2a33272c52e8687081fd8 (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.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c index e5f92ee758f..91ec925ebdb 100644 --- a/net/wireless/scan.c +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ 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); @@ -278,6 +279,10 @@ 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); |