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Re: [PATCH 22/24] regulatory: use RCU to protect global and wiphy regdomains

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 17:47 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>> -     if (nla_put_string(msg, NL80211_ATTR_REG_ALPHA2,
>> -                        cfg80211_regdomain->alpha2) ||
>> -         (cfg80211_regdomain->dfs_region &&
>> -          nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_DFS_REGION,
>> -                     cfg80211_regdomain->dfs_region)))
>> -             goto nla_put_failure;
>> +     rcu_read_lock();
>> +     regdom = rcu_dereference(cfg80211_regdomain);
>> +
>> +     if (nla_put_string(msg, NL80211_ATTR_REG_ALPHA2, regdom->alpha2) ||
>> +         (regdom->dfs_region &&
>> +          nla_put_u8(msg, NL80211_ATTR_DFS_REGION, regdom->dfs_region)))
>> +             goto nla_put_failure_rcu;
>>
>>       if (reg_last_request_cell_base() &&
>
> This causes a locking issue -- mutex is taken in
> reg_last_request_cell_base(), so it needs to be before the
> rcu_read_lock(). I fixed the version in my mac80211-next.git tree's wip
> branch.

Nice!

Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

  Luis
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