mac80211: fix notify_mac function

The ieee80211_notify_mac() function uses ieee80211_sta_req_auth() which
in turn calls ieee80211_set_disassoc() which calls a few functions that
need to be able to sleep, so ieee80211_notify_mac() cannot use RCU
locking for the interface list and must use rtnl locking instead.

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

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 87665d7bb4f9aa0bad666295914edca3dfefa701..14d165f0df75ff90e1ec9648b4454245cdbcd153 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2570,14 +2570,14 @@ void ieee80211_notify_mac(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 
        switch (notif_type) {
        case IEEE80211_NOTIFY_RE_ASSOC:
-               rcu_read_lock();
-               list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
+               rtnl_lock();
+               list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) {
                        if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
                                continue;
 
                        ieee80211_sta_req_auth(sdata, &sdata->u.sta);
                }
-               rcu_read_unlock();
+               rtnl_unlock();
                break;
        }
 }