zd1211 with softmac and wpa_supplicant revealed an issue with softmac and the use of workqueues. Some of the work functions actually reschedule themselves, so this meant that there could still be pending work after flush_scheduled_work() had been called during ieee80211softmac_stop().
This patch introduces a "running" flag which is used to ensure that rescheduling does not happen in this situation. I also used this flag to ensure that softmac's hooks into ieee80211 are non-operational once the stop operation has been started. This simply makes softmac a little more robust, because I could crash it easily by receiving frames in the short timeframe after shutting down softmac and before turning off the ZD1211 radio. (ZD1211 is now fixed as well!) Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c +++ linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ ieee80211softmac_clear_pending_work(stru ieee80211softmac_wait_for_scan(sm); spin_lock_irqsave(&sm->lock, flags); + sm->running = 0; + /* Free all pending assoc work items */ cancel_delayed_work(&sm->associnfo.work); @@ -204,6 +206,8 @@ void ieee80211softmac_start(struct net_d assert(0); if (mac->txrates_change) mac->txrates_change(dev, change, &oldrates); + + mac->running = 1; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee80211softmac_start); Index: linux/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h +++ linux/include/net/ieee80211softmac.h @@ -204,7 +204,8 @@ struct ieee80211softmac_device { /* couple of flags */ u8 scanning:1, /* protects scanning from being done multiple times at once */ - associated:1; + associated:1, + running:1; struct ieee80211softmac_scaninfo *scaninfo; struct ieee80211softmac_assoc_info associnfo; Index: linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_auth.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_auth.c +++ linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_auth.c @@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ ieee80211softmac_auth_queue(void *data) /* Lock and set flags */ spin_lock_irqsave(&mac->lock, flags); + if (unlikely(!mac->running)) { + /* Prevent reschedule on workqueue flush */ + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mac->lock, flags); + return; + } net->authenticated = 0; net->authenticating = 1; /* add a timeout call so we eventually give up waiting for an auth reply */ @@ -124,6 +129,9 @@ ieee80211softmac_auth_resp(struct net_de unsigned long flags; u8 * data; + if (unlikely(!mac->running)) + return -ENODEV; + /* Find correct auth queue item */ spin_lock_irqsave(&mac->lock, flags); list_for_each(list_ptr, &mac->auth_queue) { @@ -338,6 +346,9 @@ ieee80211softmac_deauth_resp(struct net_ struct ieee80211softmac_network *net = NULL; struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac = ieee80211_priv(dev); + if (unlikely(!mac->running)) + return -ENODEV; + if (!deauth) { dprintk("deauth without deauth packet. eek!n"); return 0; Index: linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c +++ linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c @@ -51,11 +51,12 @@ ieee80211softmac_assoc(struct ieee80211s spin_lock_irqsave(&mac->lock, flags); mac->associnfo.associating = 1; mac->associated = 0; /* just to make sure */ - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mac->lock, flags); /* Set a timer for timeout */ /* FIXME: make timeout configurable */ - schedule_delayed_work(&mac->associnfo.timeout, 5 * HZ); + if (likely(mac->running)) + schedule_delayed_work(&mac->associnfo.timeout, 5 * HZ); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mac->lock, flags); } void @@ -319,6 +320,9 @@ ieee80211softmac_handle_assoc_response(s u16 status = le16_to_cpup(&resp->status); struct ieee80211softmac_network *network = NULL; unsigned long flags; + + if (unlikely(!mac->running)) + return -ENODEV; spin_lock_irqsave(&mac->lock, flags); @@ -377,10 +381,16 @@ ieee80211softmac_handle_disassoc(struct { struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac = ieee80211_priv(dev); unsigned long flags; + + if (unlikely(!mac->running)) + return -ENODEV; + if (memcmp(disassoc->header.addr2, mac->associnfo.bssid, ETH_ALEN)) return 0; + if (memcmp(disassoc->header.addr1, mac->dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN)) return 0; + dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "got disassoc framen"); netif_carrier_off(dev); spin_lock_irqsave(&mac->lock, flags); @@ -400,6 +410,9 @@ ieee80211softmac_handle_reassoc_req(stru struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac = ieee80211_priv(dev); struct ieee80211softmac_network *network; + if (unlikely(!mac->running)) + return -ENODEV; + network = ieee80211softmac_get_network_by_bssid(mac, resp->header.addr3); if (!network) { dprintkl(KERN_INFO PFX "reassoc request from unknown networkn"); Index: linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c +++ linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c @@ -115,7 +115,15 @@ void ieee80211softmac_scan(void *d) // TODO: is this if correct, or should we do this only if scanning from assoc request? if (sm->associnfo.req_essid.len) ieee80211softmac_send_mgt_frame(sm, &sm->associnfo.req_essid, IEEE80211_STYPE_PROBE_REQ, 0); + + spin_lock_irqsave(&sm->lock, flags); + if (unlikely(!sm->running)) { + /* Prevent reschedule on workqueue flush */ + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sm->lock, flags); + break; + } schedule_delayed_work(&si->softmac_scan, IEEE80211SOFTMAC_PROBE_DELAY); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sm->lock, flags); return; } else { dprintk(PFX "Not probing Channel %d (not allowed here)n", si->channels[current_channel_idx].channel); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html