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Re: [PATCH 2/3] cfg80211: patches to allow setting the WDS peer

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On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:05 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 11:20 -0400, Bill Jordan wrote:
> 
> > +static int nl80211_set_wds_peer(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> > +{
> > +	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev;
> > +	struct wireless_dev *wdev;
> > +	struct net_device *dev;
> > +	u8 *bssid;
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC])
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	rtnl_lock();
> > +
> > +	err = get_rdev_dev_by_info_ifindex(info, &rdev, &dev);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		goto unlock_rtnl;
> > +
> > +	wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
> 
> I think this (or maybe the mac80211 bit, but I think here makes more
> sense) needs to check !netif_running(), otherwise you can change the
> peer without it taking effect, or something like that? Sorry, should've
> noted that earlier.

cfg80211_wds_wext_siwap does this.

johannes

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