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authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>2010-07-29 11:37:41 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-10 11:09:20 -0700
commit5806c0444a387eb4cfecaec74660427f15dfd570 (patch)
treefd31c93c828e72f253c6c37a068f2ac30cd8bcec /drivers
parent50c144185e4bc848ecdc58cc80113bc48beefdc4 (diff)
iwlwifi: fix scan abort
commit d28232b461b8d54b09e59325dbac8b0913ce2049 upstream. Fix possible double priv->mutex lock introduced by commit a69b03e941abae00380fc6bc1877fb797a1b31e6 "iwlwifi: cancel scan watchdog in iwl_bg_abort_scan" . We can not call cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->scan_check) with priv->mutex locked because workqueue function iwl_bg_scan_check() take that lock internally. We do not need to synchronize when canceling priv->scan_check work. We can avoid races (sending double abort command or send no command at all) using STATUS_SCAN_ABORT bit. Moreover current iwl_bg_scan_check() code seems to be broken, as we should not send abort commands when currently aborting. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
index 386c5f96eff..e1af9fd5ac3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
@@ -420,11 +420,10 @@ void iwl_bg_scan_check(struct work_struct *data)
return;
mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
- if (test_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status) ||
- test_bit(STATUS_SCAN_ABORTING, &priv->status)) {
- IWL_DEBUG_SCAN(priv, "Scan completion watchdog resetting "
- "adapter (%dms)\n",
- jiffies_to_msecs(IWL_SCAN_CHECK_WATCHDOG));
+ if (test_bit(STATUS_SCANNING, &priv->status) &&
+ !test_bit(STATUS_SCAN_ABORTING, &priv->status)) {
+ IWL_DEBUG_SCAN(priv, "Scan completion watchdog (%dms)\n",
+ jiffies_to_msecs(IWL_SCAN_CHECK_WATCHDOG));
if (!test_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status))
iwl_send_scan_abort(priv);
@@ -489,12 +488,11 @@ void iwl_bg_abort_scan(struct work_struct *work)
!test_bit(STATUS_GEO_CONFIGURED, &priv->status))
return;
- mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
-
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->scan_check);
- set_bit(STATUS_SCAN_ABORTING, &priv->status);
- iwl_send_scan_abort(priv);
+ cancel_delayed_work(&priv->scan_check);
+ mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
+ if (test_bit(STATUS_SCAN_ABORTING, &priv->status))
+ iwl_send_scan_abort(priv);
mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwl_bg_abort_scan);