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* nl80211/mac80211: define and allow configuring mesh element TTLJavier Cardona2010-12-061-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | The TTL in path selection information elements is different from the mesh ttl used in mesh data frames. Version 7.03 of the 11s draft calls this ttl 'Element TTL'. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use common work structJohannes Berg2010-06-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | IBSS, managed and mesh modes all have their own work struct, and in the future we want to also use it in other modes to process frames from the now common skb queue. This also makes the skb queue and work safe to use from other interface types. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-12-261-3/+3
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| * mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg2009-12-221-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-101-2/+2
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits) tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled" doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt. inotify: remove superfluous return code check hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig doc: Fix IRQ chip docs tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt sysctl: add missing comments fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE. sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter" tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset" fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi() spidev: fix double "of of" in comment comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem ...
| * tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the placeAndré Goddard Rosa2009-12-041-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | mac80211: fix endianess on mesh_path_error_tx() callsRui Paulo2009-11-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: use fixed broadcast addressJohannes Berg2009-11-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The netdev broadcast address cannot change from all-ones so there's no need to use it; we can instead hard-code it. Since we already have an instance in tkip.c, which will be shared if it is marked static const, doing this reduces text size at no data/bss cost. The real motivation for this is, of course, the desire to get rid of almost all uses of netdevs in mac80211 so that auditing their use becomes easier. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: update copyrights to 2009Rui Paulo2009-11-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: replace "destination" with "target" to follow the specRui Paulo2009-11-131-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Resulting object files have the same MD5 as before. Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: update PERR frame formatRui Paulo2009-11-131-2/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | Update the PERR IE frame format according to latest draft (3.03). Signed-off-by: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Move mpath and mpp growth to mesh workqueue.Javier Cardona2009-08-141-36/+110
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This prevents calling rcu_synchronize from within the tx path by moving the table growth code to the mesh workqueue. Move mesh_table_free and mesh_table_grow from mesh.c to mesh_pathtbl.c and declare them static. Also, re-enable mesh in Kconfig and update the configuration description. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Tested-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* nl80211: add generation number to all dumpsJohannes Berg2009-08-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order for userspace to be able to figure out whether it obtained a consistent snapshot of data or not when using netlink dumps, we need to have a generation number in each dump message that indicates whether the list has changed or not -- its value is arbitrary. This patch adds such a number to all dumps, this needs some mac80211 involvement to keep track of a generation number to start with when adding/removing mesh paths or stations. The wiphy and netdev lists can be fully handled within cfg80211, of course, but generation numbers need to be stored there as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix regression in mesh forwarding path.Javier Cardona2009-07-241-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The removal of the master netdev broke the mesh forwarding path. This patch fixes it by using the new internal 'pending' queue. As a result of this change, mesh forwarding no longer does the inefficient 802.11 -> 802.3 -> 802.11 conversion that was done before. [Changes since v1] Suggested by Johannes: - Select queue before adding to mpath queue - ieee80211_add_pending_skb -> ieee80211_add_pending_skbs - Remove unnecessary header wme.h Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Assign next hop address to pending mesh framesJavier Cardona2009-07-241-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assign next hop address to pending mesh frames once the path is resolved. Regression. Frames transmitted when a mesh path was wating to be resolved were being transmitted with an invalid Receiver Address. [Changes since v1] Suggested by Johannes: - Improved frame_queue traversal - Narower RCU scope Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: use correct address for mesh Path ErrorJavier Cardona2009-07-211-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | For forwarded frames, we save the precursor address in addr1 in case it needs to be used to send a Path Error. mesh_path_discard_frame, however, was using addr2 instead of addr1 to send Path Error frames, so correct that and also make the comment regarding this more clear. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: disable meshJohannes Berg2009-07-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My kvm instance was complaining a lot about sleeping in atomic contexts in the mesh code, and it turns out that both mesh_path_add() and mpp_path_add() need to be able to sleep (they even use synchronize_rcu()!). I put in a might_sleep() to annotate that, but I see no way, at least right now, of actually making sure those functions are only called from process context since they are both called during TX and RX and the mesh code itself even calls them with rcu_read_lock() "held". Therefore, let's disable it completely for now. It's possible that I'm only seeing this because the hwsim's beaconing is broken and thus the peers aren't discovered right away, but it is possible that this happens even if beaconing is working, for a peer that doesn't exist or so. It should be possible to solve this by deferring the freeing of the tables to call_rcu() instead of using synchronize_rcu(), and also using atomic allocations, but maybe it makes more sense to rework the code to not call these from atomic contexts and defer more of the work to the workqueue. Right now, I can't work on either of those solutions though. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: mesh portal functionality supportYanBo2008-09-241-1/+126
| | | | | | | | | | | Currently the mesh code doesn't support bridging mesh point interfaces with wired ethernet or AP to construct an MPP or MAP. This patch adds code to support the "6 address frame format packet" functionality to mesh point interfaces. Now the mesh network can be used as backhaul for end to end communication. Signed-off-by: Li YanBo <dreamfly281@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: split off mesh handling entirelyJohannes Berg2008-09-151-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch splits off mesh handling from the STA/IBSS. Unfortunately it increases mesh code size a bit, but I think it makes things clearer. The patch also reduces per-interface run-time memory usage. Also clean up a few places where ifdef is not required. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* replace net_device arguments with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriateJasper Bryant-Greene2008-08-221-41/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate. It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device. If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway, the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat. This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be provided. Signed-off-by: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix use of skb->cb for mesh forwardingLuis Carlos Cobo2008-08-071-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now we deal with mesh forwarding before the 802.11->802.3 conversion, thus eliminating a few unnecessary steps. The next hop lookup is called from ieee80211_master_start_xmit() instead of subif_start_xmit(). Until the next hop is found, RA in the frame will be all zeroes for frames originating from the device. For forwarded frames, RA will contain the TA of the received frame, which will be necessary to send a path error if a next hop is not found. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* build algorithms into the mac80211 moduleAdrian Bunk2008-06-301-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The old infrastructure was: - the default algorithm is built into mac80211 - other algorithms get into their own modules The implementation of this complicated scheme was horrible (just look at net/mac80211/Makefile), and anyone adding a new algorithm would most likely not get it right at his first attempt. This patch therefore builds all enabled algorithms into the mac80211 module. The user interface for the rate control algorithms changes as follows: - first the user can choose which algorithms to enable (currently only MAC80211_RC_PID is available) - if more than one algorithm is enabled (currently not possible since only one algorithm is present) the user then chooses the default one Note: - MAC80211_RC_PID is always enables for CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n Technical changes: - all selected algorithms get into the mac80211 module - net/mac80211/Makefile can now become much less complicated - support for rc80211_pid_algo.c being modular is no longer required - this includes unexporting mesh_plink_broken Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Do not report false error from mesh_path_add.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | In case the hash grow failed, it is not fair to return error - the new node _was_ _actually_ added in this case. Besides, after my previous patch, this grow is more likely to fail on large hashes. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix sleeping allocation under lock in mesh_path_node_copy.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The mesh_path_node_copy() can be called like this: mesh_path_add `- write_lock(&pathtbl_resize_lock); /* ! */ `- mesh_table_grow `- ->copy_node `- mesh_path_node_copy thus, the GFP_KERNEL is not suitable here. The acceptable fix, I suppose, is make this allocation GPF_ATOMIC - the mpath_node being allocated is 4 pointers, i.e. this allocation is small enough to survive even under a moderate memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Report allocation failure from mesh_path_node_copy.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-221-1/+4
| | | | | | | Now - return the -ENOMEM in case kmalloc fails. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Prepare mesh_table_grow to failing copy_node callback.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-221-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | The mesh_path_node_copy() performs kmalloc() and thus - may fail (well, it does not now, but I'm fixing this right now). Its caller - the mesh_table_grow() - isn't prepared for such a trick yet. This preparation is just flush the new hash and make copy_node() return an int value. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix one more call to synchronize_rcu in atomic context.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-221-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (This set applies OK without the previous one of 4 patches, but with some fuzz in the 7th one) The mesh_path_node_free() does so under hashwlock. But, this one is called 1. from mesh_path_add() after an old hash is hidden and synchronize_rcu() is calld 2. mesh_pathtbl_unregister(), when the module is being unloaded and no devices exist to mess with this hash. So, it seems to me, that simply removing the call is OK. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Brush up error paths in mesh_path_add.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-221-22/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | There are already tree paths, that do incremental rollbacks, so merge them together, rename labels and format the code to look a bit nicer. (I do not mind dropping/delaying this patch however). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Fix potential scheduling while atomic in mesh_path_add.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-131-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Calling synchronize_rcu() under write-lock-ed pathtbl_resize_lock may result in this warning (and other side effects). It looks safe just dropping this lock before calling synchronize_rcu. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Fix not checked kmalloc() result.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-131-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | The new_node kmallocation is not checked for success, so add this check. BTW, it also happens under the read_lock. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Fix GFP_KERNEL allocation under read lock.Pavel Emelyanov2008-05-131-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | The mesh_path_add() read-locks the pathtbl_resize_lock and calls kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL mask. Fix it and move the endadd2 label lower. It should be _before_ the if() beyond, but it makes no sense for it being there, so I move it right after this if(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix mesh_path and sta_info get_by_idx functionsLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-2/+5
| | | | | | | | Skip properly entries whose dev does not match. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add PLINK_ prefix and kernel doc to enum plink_stateLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-3/+3
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: always force mesh_path deletionsLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-16/+8
| | | | | | | | Postponing the deletion is not really useful anymore. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: delete mesh_path timer on mesh_path removalLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | This avoids dereferencing a no longer existing struct mesh_path. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: don't clear next_hop in path reclaimJohannes Berg2008-03-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | Luis pointed out that this path is going to be freed right away anyway so there's no point in assigning next_hop. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure accessJohannes Berg2008-03-061-16/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is now somewhat understandable. This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under RTNL and frees the key. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: export mesh_plink_brokenJohannes Berg2008-03-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | This needs to be exported because rate control algorithms can be modular. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: mesh path table implementationLuis Carlos Cobo2008-03-061-0/+522
The mesh path table associates destinations with the next hop to reach them. The table is a hash of linked lists protected by rcu mechanisms. Every mesh path contains a lock to protect the mesh path state. Each outgoing mesh frame requires a look up into this table. Therefore, the table it has been designed so it is not necessary to hold any lock to find the appropriate next hop. If the path is determined to be active within a rcu context we can safely dereference mpath->next_hop->addr, since it holds a reference to the sta next_hop. After a mesh path has been set active for the first time it next_hop must always point to a valid sta. If this is not possible the mpath must be deleted or replaced in a RCU safe fashion. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>