From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:38:38 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wirel... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc1~233^2~49^2~111
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e7e6213e4956828927c30e3ef5a42812d00c650;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

Merge branch 'master' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6

Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/scan.c
---

6e7e6213e4956828927c30e3ef5a42812d00c650
diff --cc net/mac80211/scan.c
index bc061f6,bc17cf7..b822dce
--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@@ -345,6 -439,16 +345,13 @@@ static int __ieee80211_start_scan(struc
  	if (local->scan_req)
  		return -EBUSY;
  
 -	if (req != local->int_scan_req &&
 -	    sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
 -	    !list_empty(&ifmgd->work_list)) {
 -		/* actually wait for the work it's doing to finish/time out */
 -		set_bit(IEEE80211_STA_REQ_SCAN, &ifmgd->request);
++	if (!list_empty(&local->work_list)) {
++		/* wait for the work to finish/time out */
+ 		local->scan_req = req;
+ 		local->scan_sdata = sdata;
+ 		return 0;
+ 	}
+ 
  	if (local->ops->hw_scan) {
  		u8 *ies;
  
@@@ -364,6 -468,6 +371,14 @@@
  		local->hw_scan_req->ie = ies;
  
  		local->hw_scan_band = 0;
++
++		/*
++		 * After allocating local->hw_scan_req, we must
++		 * go through until ieee80211_prep_hw_scan(), so
++		 * anything that might be changed here and leave
++		 * this function early must not go after this
++		 * allocation.
++		 */
  	}
  
  	local->scan_req = req;
@@@ -378,15 -477,15 +388,16 @@@
  		__set_bit(SCAN_HW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
  	else
  		__set_bit(SCAN_SW_SCANNING, &local->scanning);
++
  	/*
  	 * Kicking off the scan need not be protected,
  	 * only the scan variable stuff, since now
  	 * local->scan_req is assigned and other callers
  	 * will abort their scan attempts.
  	 *
--	 * This avoids getting a scan_mtx -> iflist_mtx
--	 * dependency, so that the scan completed calls
--	 * have more locking freedom.
++	 * This avoids too many locking dependencies
++	 * so that the scan completed calls have more
++	 * locking freedom.
  	 */
  
  	ieee80211_recalc_idle(local);