linux/net/wireless
Luis R. Rodriguez b2e253cf30 cfg80211: Fix regulatory bug with multiple cards and delays
When two cards are connected with the same regulatory domain
if CRDA had a delayed response then cfg80211's own set regulatory
domain would still be the world regulatory domain. There was a bug
on cfg80211's logic such that it assumed that once you pegged a
request as the last request it was already the currently set
regulatory domain. This would mean we would race setting a stale
regulatory domain to secondary cards which had the same regulatory
domain since the alpha2 would match.

We fix this by processing each regulatory request atomically,
and only move on to the next one once we get it fully processed.
In the case CRDA is not present we will simply world roam.

This issue is only present when you have a slow system and the
CRDA processing is delayed. Because of this it is not a known
regression.

Without this fix when a delay is present with CRDA the second card
would end up with an intersected regulatory domain and not allow it
to use the channels it really is designed for. When two cards with
two different regulatory domains were inserted you'd end up
rejecting the second card's regulatory domain request.
This fails with mac80211_hswim's regtest=2 (two requests, same alpha2)
and regtest=3 (two requests, different alpha2) module parameter
options.

This was reproduced and tested against mac80211_hwsim using this
CRDA delayer:

       #!/bin/bash
       echo $COUNTRY >> /tmp/log
       sleep 2
       /sbin/crda.orig

And these regulatory tests:

       modprobe mac80211_hwsim regtest=2
       modprobe mac80211_hwsim regtest=3

Reported-by: Mark Mentovai <mark@moxienet.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Mark Mentovai <mark@moxienet.com>
Tested-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-22 15:48:51 -05:00
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.gitignore wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
chan.c cfg80211: don't refuse HT20 channels on devices that don't support HT40 2010-06-02 16:13:17 -04:00
core.c Revert "wireless: Use first phyX name available when registering phy devices." 2010-10-11 14:46:52 -04:00
core.h Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-10-08 15:39:28 -04:00
db.txt wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
debugfs.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
debugfs.h cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursive 2009-10-30 16:49:18 -04:00
ethtool.c cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy 2009-10-07 16:39:46 -04:00
ethtool.h net/wireless/ethtool.h: drop unnecessary include of linux/ethtool.h 2009-10-07 16:39:49 -04:00
genregdb.awk wireless: correct sparse warning in generated regdb.c 2010-07-20 16:49:37 -04:00
ibss.c cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKs 2010-10-06 16:30:40 -04:00
Kconfig wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY 2009-12-28 16:31:37 -05:00
lib80211_crypt_ccmp.c lib80211: remove unused host_build_iv option 2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
lib80211_crypt_tkip.c lib80211: remove unused host_build_iv option 2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
lib80211_crypt_wep.c lib80211: remove unused host_build_iv option 2010-07-26 15:09:04 -04:00
lib80211.c lib80211: consolidate crypt init routines 2008-11-21 11:08:17 -05:00
Makefile wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
mlme.c cfg80211: notify drivers about frame registrations 2010-10-13 15:45:22 -04:00
nl80211.c nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average 2010-11-18 14:22:20 -05:00
nl80211.h cfg80211/mac80211: extensible frame processing 2010-08-24 16:27:56 -04:00
radiotap.c radiotap: fix vendor namespace parsing 2010-10-15 15:57:34 -04:00
reg.c cfg80211: Fix regulatory bug with multiple cards and delays 2010-11-22 15:48:51 -05:00
reg.h wireless: move regulatory_init to .init.text 2010-06-18 15:11:13 -04:00
regdb.h wireless: support internal statically compiled regulatory database 2009-12-21 18:56:10 -05:00
scan.c cfg80211: fix BSS double-unlinking 2010-10-06 16:30:43 -04:00
sme.c cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKs 2010-10-06 16:30:40 -04:00
sysfs.c wireless: Print wiphy name in sysfs. 2010-10-12 16:05:29 -04:00
sysfs.h
util.c cfg80211/mac80211: allow per-station GTKs 2010-10-06 16:30:40 -04:00
wext-compat.c wireless: Set some stats used by /proc/net/wireless (wext) 2010-10-11 15:04:19 -04:00
wext-compat.h cfg80211: validate channel settings across interfaces 2009-08-14 09:13:42 -04:00
wext-core.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-09-24 15:52:34 -04:00
wext-priv.c wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak 2010-09-20 13:41:40 -04:00
wext-proc.c net: spread __net_init, __net_exit 2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
wext-sme.c cfg80211: allow changing port control protocol 2010-08-27 13:27:07 -04:00
wext-spy.c wext: refactor 2009-10-07 16:39:43 -04:00