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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 17:54:12 +0000 (10:54 -0700)
commitd3ae12acd666aadac7834b0389e4a15046aa4132
tree7c117673c3cb068f95a153d07742483f0f29cff6
parent512a9dbfd62bea0a8b9ec5654288e2f0336c7416
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