1. 29 Sep, 2009 1 commit
    • Igor Perminov's avatar
      mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP side · 1f08e84f
      Igor Perminov authored
      Consider the following step-by step:
      1. A STA authenticates and associates with the AP and exchanges
      traffic.
      2. The STA reports to the AP that it is going to PS state.
      3. Some time later the STA device goes to the stand-by mode (not only
      its wi-fi card, but the device itself) and drops the association state
      without sending a disassociation frame.
      4. The STA device wakes up and begins authentication with an
      Auth frame as it hasn't been authenticated/associated previously.
      
      At the step 4 the AP "remembers" the STA and considers it is still in
      the PS state, so the AP buffers frames, which it has to send to the STA.
      But the STA isn't actually in the PS state and so it neither checks
      TIM bits nor reports to the AP that it isn't power saving.
      Because of that authentication/[re]association fails.
      
      To fix authentication/[re]association stage of this issue, Auth, Assoc
      Resp and Reassoc Resp frames are transmitted disregarding of STA's power
      saving state.
      
      N.B. This patch doesn't fix further data frame exchange after
      authentication/[re]association. A patch in hostapd is required to fix
      that.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIgor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      1f08e84f
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    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2) · b8273570
      Johannes Berg authored
      Similar to commit d136f1bd,
      there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
      which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:
      
          BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
          in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
          2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
           #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
           #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
          Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
          Call Trace:
           [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
           [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
           [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
           [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
           [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
           [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
           [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]
      
      Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
      before doing rcu_read_lock().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b8273570