From f5ea9120be2e5d5c846243416cfdce01d02f5836 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:17:38 +0200 Subject: nl80211: add generation number to all dumps In order for userspace to be able to figure out whether it obtained a consistent snapshot of data or not when using netlink dumps, we need to have a generation number in each dump message that indicates whether the list has changed or not -- its value is arbitrary. This patch adds such a number to all dumps, this needs some mac80211 involvement to keep track of a generation number to start with when adding/removing mesh paths or stations. The wiphy and netdev lists can be fully handled within cfg80211, of course, but generation numbers need to be stored there as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/wireless/core.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/wireless/core.c') diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 1e189306560..62e1ac00879 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("wireless configuration support"); * only read the list, and that can happen quite * often because we need to do it for each command */ LIST_HEAD(cfg80211_rdev_list); +int cfg80211_rdev_list_generation; /* * This is used to protect the cfg80211_rdev_list @@ -511,6 +512,7 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy) wiphy_update_regulatory(wiphy, NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE); list_add(&rdev->list, &cfg80211_rdev_list); + cfg80211_rdev_list_generation++; mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex); @@ -593,6 +595,7 @@ void wiphy_unregister(struct wiphy *wiphy) reg_device_remove(wiphy); list_del(&rdev->list); + cfg80211_rdev_list_generation++; device_del(&rdev->wiphy.dev); debugfs_remove(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir); @@ -653,6 +656,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block * nb, spin_lock_init(&wdev->event_lock); mutex_lock(&rdev->devlist_mtx); list_add(&wdev->list, &rdev->netdev_list); + rdev->devlist_generation++; /* can only change netns with wiphy */ dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; @@ -733,6 +737,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block * nb, if (!list_empty(&wdev->list)) { sysfs_remove_link(&dev->dev.kobj, "phy80211"); list_del_init(&wdev->list); + rdev->devlist_generation++; mutex_destroy(&wdev->mtx); #ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT kfree(wdev->wext.keys); -- cgit v1.2.3