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Commit c7c71066 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg
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mac80211: add ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_rtnl()



If it is needed to disconnect multiple virtual interfaces after
(WoWLAN-) suspend, the most obvious approach would be to iterate
all interfaces by calling ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces()
and then call ieee80211_resume_disconnect() for each one. This
is what the iwlmvm driver does.

Unfortunately, this causes a locking dependency from mac80211's
iflist_mtx to the key_mtx. This is problematic as the former is
intentionally never held while calling any driver operation to
allow drivers to iterate with their own locks held. The key_mtx
is held while installing a key into the driver though, so this
new lock dependency means drivers implementing the logic above
can no longer hold their own lock while iterating.

To fix this, add a new ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_rtnl()
function that iterates while the RTNL is already held. This is
true during suspend/resume, so that then the locking dependency
isn't introduced.

While at it, also refactor the various interface iterators and
keep only a single implementation called by the various cases.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 272b98c6
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