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Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] nl80211/cfg80211: add ability to enable TX on op-channel

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On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 13:53 +0200, Zefir Kurtisi wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 10:46 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:44 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >>> +	if ((!chan->radar_detect_timeout ||
> >>> +	     time_is_after_jiffies(chan->radar_detect_timeout)) &&
> >>> +	    (chan->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_RADAR))
> >>> +		return -EPERM;
> >>
> >> Ok so you reject it if it's 0, but the jiffies calculation could return
> >> 0 too.. in fact, since jiffies start at -5 minutes on boot, you might
> >> even hit it if you start radar detection 4 minutes after boot.
> > 
> > Also, it seems that the value should be reset eventually ... at least on
> > interface down or so. Otherwise you can start CAC, then bring the
> > interface down to stop the device, and then bring it back up (CAC check
> > is no longer running) and then you can use the channel after some time
> > even though you never really checked for radar...
> > 
> No, if you bring it back up on the same DFS channel,
> radar_detection_timeout will be set back to +60s by
> start_radar_detection(). Looks safe to me.

You need to think a bit more outside the regular code flows ... What if
I'm not calling start_radar_detection()?

johannes

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