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authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>2011-01-25 14:15:12 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-01-27 16:41:10 -0500
commitea888357ec005abffb95acee2e61aac68dff429c (patch)
tree45e343b19e249bff3a367a729a4b69df9703995c /drivers
parent203043f579ece44bb30291442cd56332651dd37d (diff)
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ath9k_htc: fix race conditions when stop device
We do not kill any scheduled tasklets when stopping device, that may cause usage of resources after free. Disable interrupts, kill tasklets and then works in correct order. Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c21
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c
index 38433f9..0352f09 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c
@@ -142,9 +142,6 @@ static void ath9k_deinit_priv(struct ath9k_htc_priv *priv)
{
ath9k_htc_exit_debug(priv->ah);
ath9k_hw_deinit(priv->ah);
- tasklet_kill(&priv->swba_tasklet);
- tasklet_kill(&priv->rx_tasklet);
- tasklet_kill(&priv->tx_tasklet);
kfree(priv->ah);
priv->ah = NULL;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
index f4d576b..6bb5995 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
@@ -1025,12 +1025,6 @@ static void ath9k_htc_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
int ret = 0;
u8 cmd_rsp;
- /* Cancel all the running timers/work .. */
- cancel_work_sync(&priv->fatal_work);
- cancel_work_sync(&priv->ps_work);
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->ath9k_led_blink_work);
- ath9k_led_stop_brightness(priv);
-
mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
if (priv->op_flags & OP_INVALID) {
@@ -1044,8 +1038,23 @@ static void ath9k_htc_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
WMI_CMD(WMI_DISABLE_INTR_CMDID);
WMI_CMD(WMI_DRAIN_TXQ_ALL_CMDID);
WMI_CMD(WMI_STOP_RECV_CMDID);
+
+ tasklet_kill(&priv->swba_tasklet);
+ tasklet_kill(&priv->rx_tasklet);
+ tasklet_kill(&priv->tx_tasklet);
+
skb_queue_purge(&priv->tx_queue);
+ mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
+
+ /* Cancel all the running timers/work .. */
+ cancel_work_sync(&priv->fatal_work);
+ cancel_work_sync(&priv->ps_work);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->ath9k_led_blink_work);
+ ath9k_led_stop_brightness(priv);
+
+ mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
+
/* Remove monitor interface here */
if (ah->opmode == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) {
if (ath9k_htc_remove_monitor_interface(priv))