commit 87be1e1e00f870567780dec111193426b4c085e8
author Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Wed Dec 14 12:20:29 2011 +0100
committer John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Thu Dec 15 14:45:46 2011 -0500
tree 1d86707afa1e5f116804f0722573eeaf9d9ab13d
parent 92b62f28d02d3aafd824062f0ea57cc36fbc59d6

mac80211: use station mutex in configuration

There's no need to use RCU here, we can just lock
the station mutex instead. This allows the code
to sleep, which is necessary for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

net/mac80211/cfg.c

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index bc83a66..3acda35 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -954,11 +954,11 @@
 	struct sta_info *sta;
 	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *vlansdata;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
+	mutex_lock(&local->sta_mtx);
 
 	sta = sta_info_get_bss(sdata, mac);
 	if (!sta) {
-		rcu_read_unlock();
+		mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 		return -ENOENT;
 	}
 
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@
 	if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
 	    params->supported_rates &&
 	    !test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER)) {
-		rcu_read_unlock();
+		mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
@@ -975,13 +975,13 @@
 
 		if (vlansdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN &&
 		    vlansdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
-			rcu_read_unlock();
+			mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
 		if (params->vlan->ieee80211_ptr->use_4addr) {
 			if (vlansdata->u.vlan.sta) {
-				rcu_read_unlock();
+				mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 				return -EBUSY;
 			}
 
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@
 	if (test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_TDLS_PEER) && params->supported_rates)
 		rate_control_rate_init(sta);
 
-	rcu_read_unlock();
+	mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 
 	if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
 	    params->sta_flags_mask & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_AUTHORIZED))