[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: move roc cookie assignment earlier" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    mac80211: move roc cookie assignment earlier

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.19.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 572bd38cc8da8fd760f681d94e63245d14a86a40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eliad Peller <eliad at wizery.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:06:37 +0200
Subject: mac80211: move roc cookie assignment earlier

commit 2f617435c3a6fe3f39efb9ae2baa77de2d6c97b8 upstream.

ieee80211_start_roc_work() might add a new roc
to existing roc, and tell cfg80211 it has already
started.

However, this might happen before the roc cookie
was set, resulting in REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL (started)
event with null cookie. Consequently, it can make
wpa_supplicant go out of sync.

Fix it by setting the roc cookie earlier.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad at wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index a1df92b..795aea6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -2315,6 +2315,24 @@ static int ieee80211_start_roc_work(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&roc->work, ieee80211_sw_roc_work);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&roc->dependents);

+	/*
+	 * cookie is either the roc cookie (for normal roc)
+	 * or the SKB (for mgmt TX)
+	 */
+	if (!txskb) {
+		/* local->mtx protects this */
+		local->roc_cookie_counter++;
+		roc->cookie = local->roc_cookie_counter;
+		/* wow, you wrapped 64 bits ... more likely a bug */
+		if (WARN_ON(roc->cookie == 0)) {
+			roc->cookie = 1;
+			local->roc_cookie_counter++;
+		}
+		*cookie = roc->cookie;
+	} else {
+		*cookie = (unsigned long)txskb;
+	}
+
 	/* if there's one pending or we're scanning, queue this one */
 	if (!list_empty(&local->roc_list) || local->scanning)
 		goto out_check_combine;
@@ -2443,24 +2461,6 @@ static int ieee80211_start_roc_work(struct ieee80211_local *local,
 	if (!queued)
 		list_add_tail(&roc->list, &local->roc_list);

-	/*
-	 * cookie is either the roc cookie (for normal roc)
-	 * or the SKB (for mgmt TX)
-	 */
-	if (!txskb) {
-		/* local->mtx protects this */
-		local->roc_cookie_counter++;
-		roc->cookie = local->roc_cookie_counter;
-		/* wow, you wrapped 64 bits ... more likely a bug */
-		if (WARN_ON(roc->cookie == 0)) {
-			roc->cookie = 1;
-			local->roc_cookie_counter++;
-		}
-		*cookie = roc->cookie;
-	} else {
-		*cookie = (unsigned long)txskb;
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 }

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1.8.3.2