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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-07-30 13:30:47 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-08-04 21:27:36 +0200
commit1601b1e56e1093d6deb8f475fafc30cc30143357 (patch)
tree523921224fe15ad2abc647edb830c438c688644e /net
parentiwlwifi: fix possible recursive locking deadlock (diff)
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mac80211: fix scan locking wrt. hw scan
Releasing the scan mutex while starting scans can lead to unexpected things happening, so we shouldn't do that. Fix that and hold the mutex across the scan triggering. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/scan.c14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index 41f20fb7e670..872d7b6ef6b3 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -400,19 +400,7 @@ static int __ieee80211_start_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
else
__set_bit(SCAN_SW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
- /*
- * Kicking off the scan need not be protected,
- * only the scan variable stuff, since now
- * local->scan_req is assigned and other callers
- * will abort their scan attempts.
- *
- * This avoids too many locking dependencies
- * so that the scan completed calls have more
- * locking freedom.
- */
-
ieee80211_recalc_idle(local);
- mutex_unlock(&local->scan_mtx);
if (local->ops->hw_scan) {
WARN_ON(!ieee80211_prep_hw_scan(local));
@@ -420,8 +408,6 @@ static int __ieee80211_start_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
} else
rc = ieee80211_start_sw_scan(local);
- mutex_lock(&local->scan_mtx);
-
if (rc) {
kfree(local->hw_scan_req);
local->hw_scan_req = NULL;