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| author | Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> | 2010-10-02 13:17:07 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-10-05 13:35:21 -0400 |
| commit | 85416a4fa193754ef36e12b20bb02fe661cb7f17 (patch) | |
| tree | 45228e888bd76a5f1251c55ea28377ddedfe2914 /net/mac80211/cfg.c | |
| parent | 5a254ffe3ffdfa84fe076009bd8e88da412180d2 (diff) | |
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mac80211: fix rx monitor filter refcounters
This patch fixes an refcounting bug. Previously it
was possible to corrupt the per-device recv. filter
and monitor management counters when:
iw dev wlanX set monitor [new flags]
was issued on an active monitor interface.
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/cfg.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/cfg.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index c981604..9e63fc2 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -68,8 +68,36 @@ static int ieee80211_change_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, params && params->use_4addr >= 0) sdata->u.mgd.use_4addr = params->use_4addr; - if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR && flags) - sdata->u.mntr_flags = *flags; + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR && flags) { + struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local; + + if (ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata)) { + /* + * Prohibit MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES to be + * changed while the interface is up. + * Else we would need to add a lot of cruft + * to update everything: + * cooked_mntrs, monitor and all fif_* counters + * reconfigure hardware + */ + if ((*flags & MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES) != + (sdata->u.mntr_flags & MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES)) + return -EBUSY; + + ieee80211_adjust_monitor_flags(sdata, -1); + sdata->u.mntr_flags = *flags; + ieee80211_adjust_monitor_flags(sdata, 1); + + ieee80211_configure_filter(local); + } else { + /* + * Because the interface is down, ieee80211_do_stop + * and ieee80211_do_open take care of "everything" + * mentioned in the comment above. + */ + sdata->u.mntr_flags = *flags; + } + } return 0; } |