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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-04-07 00:21:36 -0700
committerReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>2010-04-16 13:27:10 -0700
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iwlwifi: fix scan races
When an internal scan is started, nothing protects the is_internal_short_scan variable which can cause crashes, cf. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15667. Fix this by making the short scan request use the mutex for locking, which requires making the request go to a work struct so that it can sleep. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c1
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
index 894bcb8..1459cdb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
@@ -3357,7 +3357,6 @@ static void iwl_force_rf_reset(struct iwl_priv *priv)
*/
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "perform radio reset.\n");
iwl_internal_short_hw_scan(priv);
- return;
}