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| author | Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> | 2010-05-06 14:45:47 +0530 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-05-07 14:55:52 -0400 |
| commit | 9c6dda4e2dfea970a7105e3805f0195bc3079f2f (patch) | |
| tree | 3b255fefdca205e5f38032236faeb1d7e433a2a8 /drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c | |
| parent | 0aaffa9b9699894aab3266195a529baf9f96ac29 (diff) | |
ath9k_htc: Fix beaconing in IBSS mode
The current way of managing beaconing in ad-hoc
mode has a subtle race - the beacon obtained from mac80211
is freed in the SWBA handler rather than the TX
completion routine. But transmission of beacons goes
through the normal SKB queue maintained in hif_usb,
leading to a situation where __skb_dequeue() in the TX
completion handler goes kaput.
Fix this by simply getting a beacon from mac80211 for
every SWBA and free it in its completion routine.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c index ca7f3a78eb1..7c9e33ba95a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c @@ -1313,15 +1313,6 @@ static void ath9k_htc_remove_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, priv->nvifs--; ath9k_htc_remove_station(priv, vif, NULL); - - if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) { - spin_lock_bh(&priv->beacon_lock); - if (priv->beacon) - dev_kfree_skb_any(priv->beacon); - priv->beacon = NULL; - spin_unlock_bh(&priv->beacon_lock); - } - priv->vif = NULL; mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex); @@ -1590,9 +1581,6 @@ static void ath9k_htc_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, ath9k_htc_beacon_config(priv, vif); } - if (changed & BSS_CHANGED_BEACON) - ath9k_htc_beacon_update(priv, vif); - if ((changed & BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_ENABLED) && !bss_conf->enable_beacon) { priv->op_flags &= ~OP_ENABLE_BEACON; |