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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2008-02-21 14:09:30 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-02-29 15:41:34 -0500
commit43ba7e958f2ca05e4e9171a15402288419289d71 (patch)
tree15b7a04a7db402dd286f83cc56c21b336189da09 /net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
parentd46e144b65bf053b25d134ec9f52a38e63e04bb4 (diff)
mac80211: atomically check whether STA exists already
When a STA structure is added, it is often checked whether it already exists before adding it. This, however, isn't done atomically so there is a race condition that could lead to two STA structures being added with the same MAC address. This patch changes sta_info_add() to return an ERR_PTR in case of failure and adds the failure mode -EEXIST when the STA already exists. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
index 8d620baba4f..64476d9e8d7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c
@@ -1807,9 +1807,9 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (!sta) {
struct ieee80211_sta_bss *bss;
sta = sta_info_add(local, dev, ifsta->bssid, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!sta) {
+ if (IS_ERR(sta)) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: failed to add STA entry for the"
- " AP\n", dev->name);
+ " AP (error %ld)\n", dev->name, PTR_ERR(sta));
return;
}
bss = ieee80211_rx_bss_get(dev, ifsta->bssid,
@@ -3820,7 +3820,7 @@ struct sta_info * ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(struct net_device *dev,
wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy), print_mac(mac, addr), dev->name);
sta = sta_info_add(local, dev, addr, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!sta)
+ if (IS_ERR(sta))
return NULL;
sta->flags |= WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED;