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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-02-13 13:50:51 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-02-15 09:41:11 +0100
commit5bbe754d9ecc4a09994ecd0cf3b167224e114da5 (patch)
treeb2fd84fbc650352f9d042c073b35768489d9e02a /net/mac80211/chan.c
parent89afe614c0c737fd40eda1f8c8ef686246cf3cb6 (diff)
mac80211: don't call bss_info_changed on p2p-device/monitor
Since the idle decision rework, mac80211 started calling bss_info_changed() for the driver's monitor interface, which causes a crash for iwlwifi, but drivers generally don't expect this to happen. Therefore, avoid it. While at it, also prevent calling it in such cases and only print a warning. For the P2P Device interface the idle will no longer be called (no channel context), so also prevent that and warn on it. Reported-by: Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/chan.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/chan.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/chan.c b/net/mac80211/chan.c
index 2e6faeda22a..d91ccfcaa6d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/chan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/chan.c
@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ static int ieee80211_assign_vif_chanctx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
ieee80211_recalc_txpower(sdata);
sdata->vif.bss_conf.idle = false;
- ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
+
+ if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE &&
+ sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
return 0;
}
@@ -186,7 +189,10 @@ static void ieee80211_unassign_vif_chanctx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
rcu_assign_pointer(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf, NULL);
sdata->vif.bss_conf.idle = true;
- ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
+
+ if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE &&
+ sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
drv_unassign_vif_chanctx(local, sdata, ctx);