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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-06-16 00:00:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-07-12 12:08:10 +0200 |
| commit | 84efbb84cf76238faf26facf481c8675859bfaeb (patch) | |
| tree | 3cc01b479a4c2db70b1b9ed59e1451d93acb5769 /net/wireless | |
| parent | 71bbc9943883cffaf5d7a7728a4e4c50b3ac44d3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-84efbb84cf76238faf26facf481c8675859bfaeb.tar.gz | |
cfg80211: use wireless_dev for interface management
In order to be able to create P2P Device wdevs, move the virtual interface management over to wireless_dev structures. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 0dc3356eea40..789d0c7b287e 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) { struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0]; struct vif_params params; - struct net_device *dev; + struct wireless_dev *wdev; int err; enum nl80211_iftype type = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED; u32 flags; @@ -2001,16 +2001,14 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ? info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL, &flags); - dev = rdev->ops->add_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, + wdev = rdev->ops->add_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]), type, err ? NULL : &flags, ¶ms); - if (IS_ERR(dev)) - return PTR_ERR(dev); + if (IS_ERR(wdev)) + return PTR_ERR(wdev); if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT && info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MESH_ID]) { - struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr; - wdev_lock(wdev); BUILD_BUG_ON(IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN != IEEE80211_MAX_MESH_ID_LEN); @@ -2027,12 +2025,22 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) static int nl80211_del_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) { struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = info->user_ptr[0]; - struct net_device *dev = info->user_ptr[1]; + struct wireless_dev *wdev = info->user_ptr[1]; if (!rdev->ops->del_virtual_intf) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - return rdev->ops->del_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, dev); + /* + * If we remove a wireless device without a netdev then clear + * user_ptr[1] so that nl80211_post_doit won't dereference it + * to check if it needs to do dev_put(). Otherwise it crashes + * since the wdev has been freed, unlike with a netdev where + * we need the dev_put() for the netdev to really be freed. + */ + if (!wdev->netdev) + info->user_ptr[1] = NULL; + + return rdev->ops->del_virtual_intf(&rdev->wiphy, wdev); } static int nl80211_set_noack_map(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) @@ -6874,7 +6882,7 @@ static struct genl_ops nl80211_ops[] = { .doit = nl80211_del_interface, .policy = nl80211_policy, .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM, - .internal_flags = NL80211_FLAG_NEED_NETDEV | + .internal_flags = NL80211_FLAG_NEED_WDEV | NL80211_FLAG_NEED_RTNL, }, { |