mac80211: fix station destruction in AP/mesh modes
Unfortunately, commit b22cfcfcae5b, intended to speed up roaming
by avoiding the synchronize_rcu() broke AP/mesh modes as it moved
some code into that work item that will still call into the driver
at a time where it's no longer expected to handle this: after the
AP or mesh has been stopped.
To fix this problem remove the per-station work struct, maintain a
station cleanup list instead and flush this list when stations are
flushed. To keep this patch smaller for stable, do this when the
stations are flushed (sta_info_flush()). This unfortunately brings
back the original roaming delay; I'll fix that again in a separate
patch.
Also, Ben reported that the original commit could sometimes (with
many interfaces) cause long delays when an interface is set down,
due to blocking on flush_workqueue(). Since we now maintain the
cleanup list, this particular change of the original patch can be
reverted.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.7]
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index 1489bca..37c1889 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -299,7 +299,6 @@
spinlock_t lock;
struct work_struct drv_unblock_wk;
- struct work_struct free_sta_wk;
u16 listen_interval;
@@ -563,4 +562,6 @@
void ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_poll_response(struct sta_info *sta);
void ieee80211_sta_ps_deliver_uapsd(struct sta_info *sta);
+void ieee80211_cleanup_sdata_stas(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
+
#endif /* STA_INFO_H */