mac80211: use separate spinlock for sta flags

David Ellingsworth posted a bug that was only noticable on UP/NO-PREEMPT
and Michael correctly analysed it to be a spin_lock_bh() section within
a spin_lock_irqsave() section. This adds a separate spinlock for the
sta_info flags to fix that issue and avoid having to take much care
about where the sta flag manipulation functions are called.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-By: David Ellingsworth <david@identd.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index 95753f860acf..fd228c198e31 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ struct sta_ampdu_mlme {
  * @aid: STA's unique AID (1..2007, 0 = not assigned yet),
  *      only used in AP (and IBSS?) mode
  * @flags: STA flags, see &enum ieee80211_sta_info_flags
+ * @flaglock: spinlock for flags accesses
  * @ps_tx_buf: buffer of frames to transmit to this station
  *      when it leaves power saving state
  * @tx_filtered: buffer of frames we already tried to transmit
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ struct sta_info {
         struct rate_control_ref *rate_ctrl;
         void *rate_ctrl_priv;
         spinlock_t lock;
+        spinlock_t flaglock;
         struct ieee80211_ht_info ht_info;
         u64 supp_rates[IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS];
         u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
@@ -198,7 +200,10 @@ struct sta_info {
          */
         u8 pin_status;
 
-        /* frequently updated information, locked with lock spinlock */
+        /*
+         * frequently updated, locked with own spinlock (flaglock),
+         * use the accessors defined below
+         */
         u32 flags;
 
         /*
@@ -293,34 +298,41 @@ static inline enum plink_state sta_plink_state(struct sta_info *sta)
 
 static inline void set_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta, const u32 flags)
 {
-        spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        unsigned long irqfl;
+
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
         sta->flags |= flags;
-        spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
 }
 
 static inline void clear_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta, const u32 flags)
 {
-        spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        unsigned long irqfl;
+
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
         sta->flags &= ~flags;
-        spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
 }
 
 static inline void set_and_clear_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta,
                                            const u32 set, const u32 clear)
 {
-        spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        unsigned long irqfl;
+
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
         sta->flags |= set;
         sta->flags &= ~clear;
-        spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
 }
 
 static inline u32 test_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta, const u32 flags)
 {
         u32 ret;
+        unsigned long irqfl;
 
-        spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
         ret = sta->flags & flags;
-        spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
 
         return ret;
 }
@@ -329,11 +341,12 @@ static inline u32 test_and_clear_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta,
                                            const u32 flags)
 {
         u32 ret;
+        unsigned long irqfl;
 
-        spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
         ret = sta->flags & flags;
         sta->flags &= ~flags;
-        spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
 
         return ret;
 }
@@ -341,10 +354,11 @@ static inline u32 test_and_clear_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta,
 static inline u32 get_sta_flags(struct sta_info *sta)
 {
         u32 ret;
+        unsigned long irqfl;
 
-        spin_lock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
         ret = sta->flags;
-        spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sta->flaglock, irqfl);
 
         return ret;
 }