[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH iwinfo] nl80211: Do not block when driver aborts scan

John Crispin john at phrozen.org
Mon Jan 22 00:06:15 PST 2018



On 09/01/18 15:16, osivertsson at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Olof Sivertsson <olof.sivertsson at zenterio.com>
>
> Drivers may abort a scan by calling cfg80211_scan_done() with a struct
> cfg80211_scan_info that sets aborted to true.
>
> To avoid blocking forever consider both NL80211_CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS
> and NL80211_CMD_SCAN_ABORTED when waiting for scan results.
>
> Tested with Broadcom's bcmdhd driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olof Sivertsson <olof.sivertsson at zenterio.com>

Hi Olof,

Jow prepare an alternate solution ot the problem
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/iwinfo.git;a=commitdiff;h=75c572074f272f0b983d888f7dd23ee59719c6b0 

https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/iwinfo.git;a=commitdiff;h=fb749bf51a7855ee955fc221acdc51b94231db2b

     John


> ---
>   iwinfo_nl80211.c | 12 ++++++++----
>   iwinfo_nl80211.h |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/iwinfo_nl80211.c b/iwinfo_nl80211.c
> index 2776531..d84da24 100644
> --- a/iwinfo_nl80211.c
> +++ b/iwinfo_nl80211.c
> @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int nl80211_wait_cb(struct nl_msg *msg, void *arg)
>   	struct nl80211_event_conveyor *cv = arg;
>   	struct genlmsghdr *gnlh = nlmsg_data(nlmsg_hdr(msg));
>   
> -	if (gnlh->cmd == cv->wait)
> +	if (gnlh->cmd == cv->wait || gnlh->cmd == cv->cancel)
>   		cv->recv = gnlh->cmd;
>   
>   	return NL_SKIP;
> @@ -521,9 +521,9 @@ static int nl80211_wait_seq_check(struct nl_msg *msg, void *arg)
>   	return NL_OK;
>   }
>   
> -static int nl80211_wait(const char *family, const char *group, int cmd)
> +static int nl80211_wait(const char *family, const char *group, int wait, int cancel)
>   {
> -	struct nl80211_event_conveyor cv = { .wait = cmd };
> +	struct nl80211_event_conveyor cv = { .wait = wait, .cancel = cancel };
>   	struct nl_cb *cb;
>   	int err = 0;
>   
> @@ -544,6 +544,9 @@ static int nl80211_wait(const char *family, const char *group, int cmd)
>   
>   	nl_cb_put(cb);
>   
> +	if (cv.recv == cancel)
> +		return -ECANCELED;
> +
>   	return err;
>   }
>   
> @@ -2091,7 +2094,8 @@ static int nl80211_get_scanlist_nl(const char *ifname, char *buf, int *len)
>   	if (nl80211_request(ifname, NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN, 0, NULL, NULL))
>   		goto out;
>   
> -	if (nl80211_wait("nl80211", "scan", NL80211_CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS))
> +	if (nl80211_wait("nl80211", "scan",
> +			 NL80211_CMD_NEW_SCAN_RESULTS, NL80211_CMD_SCAN_ABORTED))
>   		goto out;
>   
>   	if (nl80211_request(ifname, NL80211_CMD_GET_SCAN, NLM_F_DUMP,
> diff --git a/iwinfo_nl80211.h b/iwinfo_nl80211.h
> index bb5117e..38089d2 100644
> --- a/iwinfo_nl80211.h
> +++ b/iwinfo_nl80211.h
> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct nl80211_msg_conveyor {
>   
>   struct nl80211_event_conveyor {
>   	int wait;
> +	int cancel;
>   	int recv;
>   };
>   




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