Commit bfcd88d2 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfg80211: don't get expired BSSes

commit ccb6c136 upstream.

When kernel-internal users use cfg80211_get_bss()
to get a reference to a BSS struct, they may end
up getting one that would have been removed from
the list if there had been any userspace access
to the list. This leads to inconsistencies and
problems.

Fix it by making cfg80211_get_bss() ignore BSSes
that cfg80211_bss_expire() would remove.

Fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180Reported-by: default avatarJiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 89b15fbb
......@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,
{
struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
struct cfg80211_internal_bss *bss, *res = NULL;
unsigned long now = jiffies;
spin_lock_bh(&dev->bss_lock);
......@@ -283,6 +284,10 @@ struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,
continue;
if (channel && bss->pub.channel != channel)
continue;
/* Don't get expired BSS structs */
if (time_after(now, bss->ts + IEEE80211_SCAN_RESULT_EXPIRE) &&
!atomic_read(&bss->hold))
continue;
if (is_bss(&bss->pub, bssid, ssid, ssid_len)) {
res = bss;
kref_get(&res->ref);
......
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