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Commit e60d7443 authored by Alban Browaeys's avatar Alban Browaeys Committed by John W. Linville
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wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211. 



This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211
dedicated workqueue.

Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as
new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is
called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex).
This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform
driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work
scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside
a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the  wdev_cleanup_work
 (which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on
wifi device).

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent ece1e3c6

net/wireless/core.c

+11 −1
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@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(cfg80211_mutex); 
/* for debugfs */

static struct dentry *ieee80211_debugfs_dir;



/* for the cleanup, scan and event works */

struct workqueue_struct *cfg80211_wq;



/* requires cfg80211_mutex to be held! */

struct cfg80211_registered_device *cfg80211_rdev_by_wiphy_idx(int wiphy_idx)

{
@@ -727,7 +730,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block * nb, 
		break;

	case NETDEV_DOWN:

		dev_hold(dev);

		schedule_work(&wdev->cleanup_work);

		queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &wdev->cleanup_work);

		break;

	case NETDEV_UP:

		/*
@@ -845,8 +848,14 @@ static int __init cfg80211_init(void) 
	if (err)

		goto out_fail_reg;



	cfg80211_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("cfg80211");

	if (!cfg80211_wq)

		goto out_fail_wq;



	return 0;



out_fail_wq:

	regulatory_exit();

out_fail_reg:

	debugfs_remove(ieee80211_debugfs_dir);

out_fail_nl80211:
@@ -868,5 +877,6 @@ static void cfg80211_exit(void) 
	wiphy_sysfs_exit();

	regulatory_exit();

	unregister_pernet_device(&cfg80211_pernet_ops);

	destroy_workqueue(cfg80211_wq);

}

module_exit(cfg80211_exit);

net/wireless/core.h

+2 −0
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@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ bool wiphy_idx_valid(int wiphy_idx) 
	return (wiphy_idx >= 0);

}





extern struct workqueue_struct *cfg80211_wq;

extern struct mutex cfg80211_mutex;

extern struct list_head cfg80211_rdev_list;

extern int cfg80211_rdev_list_generation;

net/wireless/ibss.c

+1 −1
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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ void cfg80211_ibss_joined(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid, gfp_t gfp) 
	spin_lock_irqsave(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	list_add_tail(&ev->list, &wdev->event_list);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	schedule_work(&rdev->event_work);

	queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &rdev->event_work);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_ibss_joined);

net/wireless/scan.c

+1 −1
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ void cfg80211_scan_done(struct cfg80211_scan_request *request, bool aborted) 
	WARN_ON(request != wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy)->scan_req);



	request->aborted = aborted;

	schedule_work(&wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy)->scan_done_wk);

	queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &wiphy_to_dev(request->wiphy)->scan_done_wk);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_scan_done);

net/wireless/sme.c

+3 −3
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@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ void cfg80211_connect_result(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid, 
	spin_lock_irqsave(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	list_add_tail(&ev->list, &wdev->event_list);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	schedule_work(&rdev->event_work);

	queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &rdev->event_work);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_connect_result);
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ void cfg80211_roamed(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid, 
	spin_lock_irqsave(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	list_add_tail(&ev->list, &wdev->event_list);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	schedule_work(&rdev->event_work);

	queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &rdev->event_work);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_roamed);
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ void cfg80211_disconnected(struct net_device *dev, u16 reason, 
	spin_lock_irqsave(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	list_add_tail(&ev->list, &wdev->event_list);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wdev->event_lock, flags);

	schedule_work(&rdev->event_work);

	queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &rdev->event_work);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_disconnected);