This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: bail out from prep_connection() if a reconfig is ongoing to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mac80211-bail-out-from-prep_connection-if-a-reconfig-is-ongoing.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018 From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 17:56:21 +0300 Subject: mac80211: bail out from prep_connection() if a reconfig is ongoing From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f8860ce836f2d502b07ef99559707fe55d90f5bc ] If ieee80211_hw_restart() is called during authentication, the authentication process will continue, causing the driver to be called in a wrong state. This ultimately causes an oops in the iwlwifi driver (at least). This fixes bugzilla 195299 partly. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195299 Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -3995,6 +3995,10 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(str if (WARN_ON(!ifmgd->auth_data && !ifmgd->assoc_data)) return -EINVAL; + /* If a reconfig is happening, bail out */ + if (local->in_reconfig) + return -EBUSY; + if (assoc) { rcu_read_lock(); have_sta = sta_info_get(sdata, cbss->bssid); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/mac80211-bail-out-from-prep_connection-if-a-reconfig-is-ongoing.patch