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authorSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2013-11-21 18:19:50 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-12-02 11:51:53 +0100
commit7ca133bc7f9dd5cee2b469eb917bd352be80a690 (patch)
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parentc56589ed1d25ae110a5b000bc1edea8f6861348f (diff)
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mac80211: modify beacon using sdata/wdev-lock, not rtnl lock
The csa finalize worker needs to change the beacon information (for
different modes). These are normally protected under rtnl lock, but the
csa finalize worker is called by drivers and should not acquire the RTNL
lock. Therefore change access protection for beacons to sdata/wdev lock.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
[fix sdata_dereference]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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