[PATCH] libertas: fix scheduling while atomic bug in CMD_MAC_CONTROL

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Mar 19 11:28:11 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 11:20 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> The old code incorrectly used lbs_cmd_with_response() and now uses
> lbs_cmd_async().
> 
> While there I noticed that there is no real useful return values for
> asynchronous command functions, so I made the function "void".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de>

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>

> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c	2008-03-18 10:09:21.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c	2008-03-18 10:09:25.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1286,9 +1286,8 @@ int lbs_set_radio_control(struct lbs_pri
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -int lbs_set_mac_control(struct lbs_private *priv)
> +void lbs_set_mac_control(struct lbs_private *priv)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
>  	struct cmd_ds_mac_control cmd;
>  
>  	lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_CMD);
> @@ -1297,10 +1296,10 @@ int lbs_set_mac_control(struct lbs_priva
>  	cmd.action = cpu_to_le16(priv->mac_control);
>  	cmd.reserved = 0;
>  
> -	ret = lbs_cmd_with_response(priv, CMD_MAC_CONTROL, &cmd);
> +	lbs_cmd_async(priv, CMD_MAC_CONTROL,
> +		&cmd.hdr, sizeof(cmd));
>  
> -	lbs_deb_leave_args(LBS_DEB_CMD, "ret %d", ret);
> -	return ret;
> +	lbs_deb_leave(LBS_DEB_CMD);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/decl.h
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/decl.h	2008-03-18 10:07:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/decl.h	2008-03-18 10:09:25.000000000 +0100
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ struct net_device;
>  struct cmd_ctrl_node;
>  struct cmd_ds_command;
>  
> -int lbs_set_mac_control(struct lbs_private *priv);
> +void lbs_set_mac_control(struct lbs_private *priv);
>  
>  void lbs_send_tx_feedback(struct lbs_private *priv);
>  
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c	2008-03-18 10:07:11.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c	2008-03-18 10:09:25.000000000 +0100
> @@ -272,9 +272,7 @@ static int assoc_helper_wep_keys(struct 
>  	else
>  		priv->mac_control &= ~CMD_ACT_MAC_WEP_ENABLE;
>  
> -	ret = lbs_set_mac_control(priv);
> -	if (ret)
> -		goto out;
> +	lbs_set_mac_control(priv);
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
>  
> @@ -304,9 +302,7 @@ static int assoc_helper_secinfo(struct l
>  	memcpy(&priv->secinfo, &assoc_req->secinfo,
>  		sizeof(struct lbs_802_11_security));
>  
> -	ret = lbs_set_mac_control(priv);
> -	if (ret)
> -		goto out;
> +	lbs_set_mac_control(priv);
>  
>  	/* If RSN is already enabled, don't try to enable it again, since
>  	 * ENABLE_RSN resets internal state machines and will clobber the




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