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Re: [PATCH v6] nl80211: Stop scheduled scan if netlink client disappears

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Hi Johannes,

On to, 2014-11-20 at 16:14 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 13:32 +0200, Jukka Rissanen wrote:
> 
> > - moved owner netlink port id from cfg80211_sched_scan_request to
> >   rdev in order to avoid possible races
> 
> How does that really help though? You're not really locking it anyway.
> 
> I think you should consider keeping it inside the sched_scan_request,
> but maybe make that an __rcu pointer.
> 
> Your patch also still has the problem I pointed out to you before - you
> can get the following sequence of events:
> 
> start_sched_scan (owner=true)
> close socket - schedule worker
> start_sched_scan (from another socket, owner doesn't matter)

If I am reading the code correctly from
nl80211.c:nl80211_start_sched_scan() this socket will get -EINPROGRESS.
Only after the worker has finished and called
__cfg80211_stop_sched_scan() will the other socket able to start a new
scheduled scan. Or I might have just missed some important detail
here :)

> run worker - cancels the new sched_scan
> 
> You need to make sure the worker is flushed in start_sched_scan or so,
> which might require RTNL work there or something.
> 
> johannes
> 


Cheers,
Jukka


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