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cfg80211: don't get expired BSSes
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:55:38 +0000 (10:55 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:20:43 +0000 (10:20 -0700)
commit001632030b5d98ac56c65416a884a90a33a40097
tree4300c3974757487d82565af9b6d5ad5024c92b11
parente876eab4b7f0f5afd1e2a33272c52e8687081fd8
cfg80211: don't get expired BSSes

commit ccb6c1360f8dd43303c659db718e7e0b24175db5 upstream.

When kernel-internal users use cfg80211_get_bss()
to get a reference to a BSS struct, they may end
up getting one that would have been removed from
the list if there had been any userspace access
to the list. This leads to inconsistencies and
problems.

Fix it by making cfg80211_get_bss() ignore BSSes
that cfg80211_bss_expire() would remove.

Fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180

Reported-by: Jiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiajia Zheng <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/wireless/scan.c