mwifiex: cfg80211: do not change virtual interface during scan processing
authorLimin Zhu <liminzhu@marvell.com>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 06:22:34 +0000 (14:22 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:42:52 +0000 (08:42 +0100)
commit0c2fa288cfc314180a82aae5f3155f1182fc13ba
tree4165e0724b5ff33815118e725501d78408036924
parent1a7e2b546b0fbd8123b55df771d6f06adad02c99
mwifiex: cfg80211: do not change virtual interface during scan processing

[ Upstream commit c61cfe49f0f0f0d1f8b56d0b045838d597e8c3a3 ]

(1) Change virtual interface operation in cfg80211 process reset and
reinitilize private data structure.
(2) Scan result event processed in main process will dereference private
data structure concurrently, ocassionly crash the kernel.

The cornel case could be trigger by below steps:
(1) wpa_cli mlan0 scan
(2) ./hostapd mlan0.conf

Cfg80211 asynchronous scan procedure is not all the time operated
under rtnl lock, here we add the protect to serialize the cfg80211
scan and change_virtual interface operation.

Signed-off-by: Limin Zhu <liminzhu@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c