mac80211: make mgmt_tx accept a NULL channel
authorAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:20:00 +0000 (14:20 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:01:24 +0000 (15:01 +0200)
cfg80211 passes a NULL channel to mgmt_tx if the frame has
to be sent on the one currently in use by the device.
Make the implementation of mgmt_tx correctly handle this
case. Fail if offchan is required.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
[fix RCU locking]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/cfg.c

index cd6f35f6e714be709ff8c464712339e15ebc7be1..64cf294c2b9680329f3925857305ca7843a6281b 100644 (file)
@@ -2841,6 +2841,12 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
        }
 
+       /* configurations requiring offchan cannot work if no channel has been
+        * specified
+        */
+       if (need_offchan && !chan)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
 
        /* Check if the operating channel is the requested channel */
@@ -2850,10 +2856,15 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
                rcu_read_lock();
                chanctx_conf = rcu_dereference(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf);
 
-               if (chanctx_conf)
-                       need_offchan = chan != chanctx_conf->def.chan;
-               else
+               if (chanctx_conf) {
+                       need_offchan = chan && (chan != chanctx_conf->def.chan);
+               } else if (!chan) {
+                       ret = -EINVAL;
+                       rcu_read_unlock();
+                       goto out_unlock;
+               } else {
                        need_offchan = true;
+               }
                rcu_read_unlock();
        }