mac80211: check interface is down before type change
commit958da8f522180518a1f04b65d4eef61eb4ecbe72
authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:25:40 +0000 (1 19:25 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:22:31 +0000 (9 16:22 -0800)
treef260ee0bd363cbdb31d48717416a7415a13ae396
parentdb6ad3e1187477afb4a1fc79bc48f0a8cf916ec3
mac80211: check interface is down before type change

commit c1f9a764cf47686b1f5a0cf87ada68d90056136a upstream.

For some strange reason the netif_running() check
ended up after the actual type change instead of
before, potentially causing all kinds of problems
if the interface is up while changing the type;
one of the problems manifests itself as a warning:

WARNING: at net/mac80211/iface.c:651 ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211]()
Hardware name: Aspire one
Pid: 2596, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G        W  2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu
Call Trace:
 [] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0
 [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
 [] ieee80211_teardown_sdata+0xda/0x1a0 [mac80211]
 [] ieee80211_if_change_type+0x4a/0xc0 [mac80211]
 [] ieee80211_change_iface+0x61/0xa0 [mac80211]
 [] cfg80211_wext_siwmode+0xc7/0x120 [cfg80211]
 [] ioctl_standard_call+0x58/0xf0

(http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=ieee80211_teardown_sdata)

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/mac80211/cfg.c