mac80211: fix scan cancel on ifdown
authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:33:47 +0000 (16:33 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:40:45 +0000 (14:40 -0400)
When an interface is taken down while a scan is
pending -- i.e. a scan request was accepted but
not yet acted upon due to other work being in
progress -- we currently do not properly cancel
that scan and end up getting stuck. Fix this by
doing better checks when an interface is taken
down.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/iface.c
net/mac80211/scan.c

index d134bd79972f831964262acb0de1f2cfc241efbf..f6005adcbf90e794a5a3a5b5518aa375553eedd3 100644 (file)
@@ -497,30 +497,8 @@ static int ieee80211_stop(struct net_device *dev)
                }
                /* fall through */
        default:
-               if (local->scan_sdata == sdata) {
-                       if (!local->ops->hw_scan)
-                               cancel_delayed_work_sync(&local->scan_work);
-                       /*
-                        * The software scan can no longer run now, so we can
-                        * clear out the scan_sdata reference. However, the
-                        * hardware scan may still be running. The complete
-                        * function must be prepared to handle a NULL value.
-                        */
-                       local->scan_sdata = NULL;
-                       /*
-                        * The memory barrier guarantees that another CPU
-                        * that is hardware-scanning will now see the fact
-                        * that this interface is gone.
-                        */
-                       smp_mb();
-                       /*
-                        * If software scanning, complete the scan but since
-                        * the scan_sdata is NULL already don't send out a
-                        * scan event to userspace -- the scan is incomplete.
-                        */
-                       if (test_bit(SCAN_SW_SCANNING, &local->scanning))
-                               ieee80211_scan_completed(&local->hw, true);
-               }
+               if (local->scan_sdata == sdata)
+                       ieee80211_scan_cancel(local);
 
                /*
                 * Disable beaconing for AP and mesh, IBSS can't
index 1e04be6b9129b04d30c17b4807b9e936cebefac8..039901109fa1736a4eecc1ede72e96dfd0dd2db3 100644 (file)
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ void ieee80211_scan_completed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool aborted)
        if (local->scan_req != local->int_scan_req)
                cfg80211_scan_done(local->scan_req, aborted);
        local->scan_req = NULL;
+       local->scan_sdata = NULL;
 
        was_hw_scan = test_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
        local->scanning = 0;
@@ -660,6 +661,7 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)
                int rc;
 
                local->scan_req = NULL;
+               local->scan_sdata = NULL;
 
                rc = __ieee80211_start_scan(sdata, req);
                mutex_unlock(&local->scan_mtx);
@@ -742,7 +744,7 @@ int ieee80211_request_internal_scan(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
 void ieee80211_scan_cancel(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 {
-       bool swscan;
+       bool abortscan;
 
        cancel_delayed_work_sync(&local->scan_work);
 
@@ -751,9 +753,10 @@ void ieee80211_scan_cancel(struct ieee80211_local *local)
         * queued -- mostly at suspend under RTNL.
         */
        mutex_lock(&local->scan_mtx);
-       swscan = test_bit(SCAN_SW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
+       abortscan = test_bit(SCAN_SW_SCANNING, &local->scanning) ||
+                   (!local->scanning && local->scan_req);
        mutex_unlock(&local->scan_mtx);
 
-       if (swscan)
+       if (abortscan)
                ieee80211_scan_completed(&local->hw, true);
 }