There's a window for ieee80211_ifa_changed() to get called whilst the managed mode mutex has not been initialized when opening and stopping the interface. Currently this causes a kernel BUG like the following: [ 132.460013] kernel BUG at /home/wifi/iwlwifi-2.6/net/mac80211/main.c:380! [ 132.460013] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP The mutex is initialized during open(), hence once netif_running() is true, the mutex should be valid. Fix by adding a netif_running() check to the function. Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/main.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 5706156..88b671a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -359,6 +359,9 @@ static int ieee80211_ifa_changed(struct notifier_block *nb, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd; + if (!netif_running(ndev)) + return NOTIFY_DONE; + /* Make sure it's our interface that got changed */ if (!wdev) return NOTIFY_DONE; -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
