From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:08:43 +0000 (+0300) Subject: ath9k: Fix a locking bug in ath9k_add_interface() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=55b8644dfd624506d1f9ddb20f0bee94c029643b;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git ath9k: Fix a locking bug in ath9k_add_interface() [ Upstream commit 461cf036057477805a8a391e5fd0f5264a5e56a8 ] We tried to revert commit d9c52fd17cb4 ("ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor mode interface") but accidentally missed part of the locking change. The lock has to be held earlier so that we're holding it when we do "sc->tx99_vif = vif;" and also there in the current code there is a stray unlock before we have taken the lock. Fixes: 6df0580be8bc ("ath9k: add back support for using active monitor interfaces for tx99") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c index f6151a00041d..abc997427bae 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c @@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ static int ath9k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ath_vif *avp = (void *)vif->drv_priv; struct ath_node *an = &avp->mcast_node; + mutex_lock(&sc->mutex); if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ATH9K_TX99)) { if (sc->cur_chan->nvifs >= 1) { mutex_unlock(&sc->mutex); @@ -1257,8 +1258,6 @@ static int ath9k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, sc->tx99_vif = vif; } - mutex_lock(&sc->mutex); - ath_dbg(common, CONFIG, "Attach a VIF of type: %d\n", vif->type); sc->cur_chan->nvifs++;