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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-01-20 11:21:06 -0800
committerReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>2010-01-29 11:13:34 -0800
commit47e28f41dce90ea4317d35cf23f232c1a6b07adf (patch)
tree8ddc9b6044c994c5c68f1fc348e9b301fd8ccd6e /drivers/net
parenta7fce6ee8dd693fb2a9d19ddf9ee1fe380893fa1 (diff)
iwlwifi: fix locking in iwl_mac_add_interface
The corresponding iwl_mac_remove_interface only acquires the mutex, leading me to believe that the spinlock is not necessary. However, this doesn't actually acquire the mutex around the vif pointer check and assignment, fix that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
index 1cfabd6be0b..02bf17ecaf5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
@@ -2631,23 +2631,21 @@ int iwl_mac_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
{
struct iwl_priv *priv = hw->priv;
- unsigned long flags;
+ int err = 0;
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "enter: type %d\n", vif->type);
+ mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
+
if (priv->vif) {
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "leave - vif != NULL\n");
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ goto out;
}
- spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
priv->vif = vif;
priv->iw_mode = vif->type;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
-
- mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
-
if (vif->addr) {
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "Set %pM\n", vif->addr);
memcpy(priv->mac_addr, vif->addr, ETH_ALEN);
@@ -2657,10 +2655,11 @@ int iwl_mac_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
/* we are not ready, will run again when ready */
set_bit(STATUS_MODE_PENDING, &priv->status);
+ out:
mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "leave\n");
- return 0;
+ return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwl_mac_add_interface);