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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-10-07 12:55:24 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-10-07 14:41:27 -0400
commit7b99a7c2dab7efe7c265b66fedbf3444958ebfe3 (patch)
treed45093d306d686d4cb0cdc391c6895f372b20495 /net/mac80211/scan.c
parent4b34d432b0fcff422304de4eb49d6da861fe335c (diff)
mac80211: fix sw scan locking
The recent scan overhaul broke locking because now we can jump to code that attempts to unlock, while we don't have the mutex held. Fix this by holding the mutex around all the relevant code. Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/scan.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/scan.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/scan.c b/net/mac80211/scan.c
index 523db930dab..fb274db77e3 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -681,8 +681,6 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)
goto out_complete;
}
- mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
-
/*
* as long as no delay is required advance immediately
* without scheduling a new work
@@ -713,6 +711,7 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_struct *work)
} while (next_delay == 0);
ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(&local->hw, &local->scan_work, next_delay);
+ mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
return;
out_complete: