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mac80211: fix queue handling crash

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The code I added in "mac80211: don't start new netdev queues
if driver stopped" crashes for monitor and AP VLAN interfaces
because while they have a netdev, they don't have queues set
up by the driver.

To fix the crash, exclude these from queue accounting here
and just start their netdev queues unconditionally.

For monitor, this is the best we can do, as we can redirect
frames there to any other interface and don't know which one
that will since it can be different for each frame.

For AP VLAN interfaces, we can do better later and actually
properly track the queue status. Not doing this is really a
separate bug though.

Reported-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg 2013-05-23 21:04:38 +02:00
parent c815797663
commit 2b436312f0
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -653,7 +653,11 @@ int ieee80211_do_open(struct wireless_dev *wdev, bool coming_up)
ieee80211_recalc_ps(local, -1);
if (dev) {
if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ||
sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) {
/* XXX: for AP_VLAN, actually track AP queues */
netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
} else if (dev) {
unsigned long flags;
int n_acs = IEEE80211_NUM_ACS;
int ac;