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| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mlme.c | 38 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 2f46db7d3afc..cc8e6ea1b27e 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -4392,15 +4392,19 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, return -ENOMEM; } - if (new_sta || override) { - err = ieee80211_prep_channel(sdata, cbss); - if (err) { - if (new_sta) - sta_info_free(local, new_sta); - return -EINVAL; - } - } - + /* + * Set up the information for the new channel before setting the + * new channel. We can't - completely race-free - change the basic + * rates bitmap and the channel (sband) that it refers to, but if + * we set it up before we at least avoid calling into the driver's + * bss_info_changed() method with invalid information (since we do + * call that from changing the channel - only for IDLE and perhaps + * some others, but ...). + * + * So to avoid that, just set up all the new information before the + * channel, but tell the driver to apply it only afterwards, since + * it might need the new channel for that. + */ if (new_sta) { u32 rates = 0, basic_rates = 0; bool have_higher_than_11mbit; @@ -4471,8 +4475,22 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, sdata->vif.bss_conf.sync_dtim_count = 0; } rcu_read_unlock(); + } - /* tell driver about BSSID, basic rates and timing */ + if (new_sta || override) { + err = ieee80211_prep_channel(sdata, cbss); + if (err) { + if (new_sta) + sta_info_free(local, new_sta); + return -EINVAL; + } + } + + if (new_sta) { + /* + * tell driver about BSSID, basic rates and timing + * this was set up above, before setting the channel + */ ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_BSSID | BSS_CHANGED_BASIC_RATES | BSS_CHANGED_BEACON_INT); |