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Re: [RFC PATCHv3] mac80211: Add support for hardware ARP query filtering

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On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 10:24 +0200, ext Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 09:04 +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> 
> > +static int ieee80211_ifa_changed(struct notifier_block *nb,
> > +				 unsigned long data, void *arg)
> > +{
> > +	struct in_ifaddr *ifa = arg;
> > +	struct ieee80211_local *local =
> > +		container_of(nb, struct ieee80211_local,
> > +			     ifa_notifier);
> > +	struct net_device *ndev = ifa->ifa_dev->dev;
> > +	struct wireless_dev *wdev = ndev->ieee80211_ptr;
> > +	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
> > +	struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd;
> > +
> > +	/* Make sure it's our interface that got changed */
> > +	if (!wdev)
> > +		return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > +
> > +	if (wdev->wiphy != local->hw.wiphy)
> > +		return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > +
> > +	/* We are concerned about IP addresses only when associated */
> > +	sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(ndev);
> > +	mutex_lock(&sdata->u.mgd.mtx);
> > +	ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd;
> > +	if (ifmgd->associated)
> > +		ieee80211_set_arp_filter(sdata);
> > +	mutex_unlock(&sdata->u.mgd.mtx);
> 
> I'm sure this will fail in interesting ways since nothing guarantees
> that this interface is in managed mode.

S***, I need a vacation. This is bound to fail even if the interface is
in managed mode, as it's not protecting the right thing. 

I was already looking at the ifmgd->mtx but somehow managed to
copy-paste this one :(

-Juuso

> johannes
> 


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