From 0c2fa288cfc314180a82aae5f3155f1182fc13ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Limin Zhu Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:22:34 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: cfg80211: do not change virtual interface during scan processing [ Upstream commit c61cfe49f0f0f0d1f8b56d0b045838d597e8c3a3 ] (1) Change virtual interface operation in cfg80211 process reset and reinitilize private data structure. (2) Scan result event processed in main process will dereference private data structure concurrently, ocassionly crash the kernel. The cornel case could be trigger by below steps: (1) wpa_cli mlan0 scan (2) ./hostapd mlan0.conf Cfg80211 asynchronous scan procedure is not all the time operated under rtnl lock, here we add the protect to serialize the cfg80211 scan and change_virtual interface operation. Signed-off-by: Limin Zhu Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index 32c5074..68aa0c7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -1116,6 +1116,12 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_change_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct mwifiex_private *priv = mwifiex_netdev_get_priv(dev); enum nl80211_iftype curr_iftype = dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype; + if (priv->scan_request) { + mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, ERROR, + "change virtual interface: scan in process\n"); + return -EBUSY; + } + switch (curr_iftype) { case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: switch (type) { -- 2.7.4