mac80211: remove STA entries when taking down interface

When we take down an interface, we need to remove the STA info
items that belong to it because otherwise we might invoke a
sta_notify() callback in the driver when we later delete the
STA entries, but in that case the driver will already have
removed its knowledge of the interface they belonged to leading
to confusion. Also, we could invoke the set_tim() callback after
the driver removed its knowledge of the interface, which can
lead to a crash if it requests a beacon with a then-invalid vif
pointer!

A side effect of this patch is that, because it was easier, it
disallows changing the WDS peer while an interface is up. Should
that actually be necessary, it can be added back, but the WDS
peer STA entry may not be added while the interface is UP so for
now I've simplified the WDS peer's STA entry lifetime management.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index fb5411d01f82..547bfc3b2431 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ void sta_info_clear_tim_bit(struct sta_info *sta);
 void sta_info_init(struct ieee80211_local *local);
 int sta_info_start(struct ieee80211_local *local);
 void sta_info_stop(struct ieee80211_local *local);
-void sta_info_flush(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+int sta_info_flush(struct ieee80211_local *local,
                     struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
 
 #endif /* STA_INFO_H */