This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: correctly close cancelled scans
to the 3.4-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-correctly-close-cancelled-scans.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a754055a1296fcbe6f32de3a5eaca6efb2fd1865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:12:07 +0300
Subject: mac80211: correctly close cancelled scans
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
commit a754055a1296fcbe6f32de3a5eaca6efb2fd1865 upstream.
__ieee80211_scan_completed is called from a worker. This
means that the following flow is possible.
* driver calls ieee80211_scan_completed
* mac80211 cancels the scan (that is already complete)
* __ieee80211_scan_completed runs
When scan_work will finally run, it will see that the scan
hasn't been aborted and might even trigger another scan on
another band. This leads to a situation where cfg80211's
scan is not done and no further scan can be issued.
Fix this by setting a new flag when a HW scan is being
cancelled so that no other scan will be triggered.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 3 +++
net/mac80211/scan.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -789,12 +789,15 @@ struct tpt_led_trigger {
* that the scan completed.
* @SCAN_ABORTED: Set for our scan work function when the driver reported
* a scan complete for an aborted scan.
+ * @SCAN_HW_CANCELLED: Set for our scan work function when the scan is being
+ * cancelled.
*/
enum {
SCAN_SW_SCANNING,
SCAN_HW_SCANNING,
SCAN_COMPLETED,
SCAN_ABORTED,
+ SCAN_HW_CANCELLED,
};
/**
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ static bool ieee80211_prep_hw_scan(struc
enum ieee80211_band band;
int i, ielen, n_chans;
+ if (test_bit(SCAN_HW_CANCELLED, &local->scanning))
+ return false;
+
do {
if (local->hw_scan_band == IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS)
return false;
@@ -844,7 +847,23 @@ void ieee80211_scan_cancel(struct ieee80
if (!local->scan_req)
goto out;
+ /*
+ * We have a scan running and the driver already reported completion,
+ * but the worker hasn't run yet or is stuck on the mutex - mark it as
+ * cancelled.
+ */
+ if (test_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning) &&
+ test_bit(SCAN_COMPLETED, &local->scanning)) {
+ set_bit(SCAN_HW_CANCELLED, &local->scanning);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (test_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning)) {
+ /*
+ * Make sure that __ieee80211_scan_completed doesn't trigger a
+ * scan on another band.
+ */
+ set_bit(SCAN_HW_CANCELLED, &local->scanning);
if (local->ops->cancel_hw_scan)
drv_cancel_hw_scan(local, local->scan_sdata);
goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/mac80211-correctly-close-cancelled-scans.patch
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