[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "iwlegacy: fix IBSS cleanup" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iwlegacy: fix IBSS cleanup

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 04d2cabd11b5c25acced1fda28bcb3eaed3e6fb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:45:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] iwlegacy: fix IBSS cleanup

commit fa4cffcba9e13798ed7c6b8526b91b1631ecb53e upstream.

We do not correctly change interface type when switching from
IBSS mode to STA mode, that results in microcode errors.

Resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886946

Reported-by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c |   35 +++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c
index 5d4807c..82374de 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c
@@ -3957,17 +3957,21 @@ il_connection_init_rx_config(struct il_priv *il)

 	memset(&il->staging, 0, sizeof(il->staging));

-	if (!il->vif) {
+	switch (il->iw_mode) {
+	case NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED:
 		il->staging.dev_type = RXON_DEV_TYPE_ESS;
-	} else if (il->vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) {
+		break;
+	case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
 		il->staging.dev_type = RXON_DEV_TYPE_ESS;
 		il->staging.filter_flags = RXON_FILTER_ACCEPT_GRP_MSK;
-	} else if (il->vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) {
+		break;
+	case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
 		il->staging.dev_type = RXON_DEV_TYPE_IBSS;
 		il->staging.flags = RXON_FLG_SHORT_PREAMBLE_MSK;
 		il->staging.filter_flags =
 		    RXON_FILTER_BCON_AWARE_MSK | RXON_FILTER_ACCEPT_GRP_MSK;
-	} else {
+		break;
+	default:
 		IL_ERR("Unsupported interface type %d\n", il->vif->type);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -4550,8 +4554,7 @@ out:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(il_mac_add_interface);

 static void
-il_teardown_interface(struct il_priv *il, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
-		      bool mode_change)
+il_teardown_interface(struct il_priv *il, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
 {
 	lockdep_assert_held(&il->mutex);

@@ -4560,9 +4563,7 @@ il_teardown_interface(struct il_priv *il, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
 		il_force_scan_end(il);
 	}

-	if (!mode_change)
-		il_set_mode(il);
-
+	il_set_mode(il);
 }

 void
@@ -4575,8 +4576,8 @@ il_mac_remove_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif)

 	WARN_ON(il->vif != vif);
 	il->vif = NULL;
-
-	il_teardown_interface(il, vif, false);
+	il->iw_mode = NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED;
+	il_teardown_interface(il, vif);
 	memset(il->bssid, 0, ETH_ALEN);

 	D_MAC80211("leave\n");
@@ -4685,18 +4686,10 @@ il_mac_change_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
 	}

 	/* success */
-	il_teardown_interface(il, vif, true);
 	vif->type = newtype;
 	vif->p2p = false;
-	err = il_set_mode(il);
-	WARN_ON(err);
-	/*
-	 * We've switched internally, but submitting to the
-	 * device may have failed for some reason. Mask this
-	 * error, because otherwise mac80211 will not switch
-	 * (and set the interface type back) and we'll be
-	 * out of sync with it.
-	 */
+	il->iw_mode = newtype;
+	il_teardown_interface(il, vif);
 	err = 0;

 out:
--
1.7.9.5