Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2019-11-08
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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 205/205] ath9k: Fix a locking bug in ath9k_add_interface()

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-11-08 11:43:06
Also in: linux-wireless, lkml, stable
Subsystem: atheros ath generic utilities, qualcomm atheros ath9k wireless driver, the rest · Maintainers: Jeff Johnson, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen, Linus Torvalds

From: Dan Carpenter <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 461cf036057477805a8a391e5fd0f5264a5e56a8 ]

We tried to revert commit d9c52fd17cb4 ("ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor
mode interface") but accidentally missed part of the locking change.

The lock has to be held earlier so that we're holding it when we do
"sc->tx99_vif = vif;" and also there in the current code there is a
stray unlock before we have taken the lock.

Fixes: 6df0580be8bc ("ath9k: add back support for using active monitor interfaces for tx99")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
index c85f613e8ceb5..74f98bbaea889 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1251,6 +1251,7 @@ static int ath9k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	struct ath_vif *avp = (void *)vif->drv_priv;
 	struct ath_node *an = &avp->mcast_node;
 
+	mutex_lock(&sc->mutex);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ATH9K_TX99)) {
 		if (sc->cur_chan->nvifs >= 1) {
 			mutex_unlock(&sc->mutex);
@@ -1259,8 +1260,6 @@ static int ath9k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 		sc->tx99_vif = vif;
 	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&sc->mutex);
-
 	ath_dbg(common, CONFIG, "Attach a VIF of type: %d\n", vif->type);
 	sc->cur_chan->nvifs++;
 
-- 
2.20.1
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