[PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: block ioctls until card fully initialised

From: Richard Kennedy
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 07:19:32 EST


Add a mutex to block ioctls before the card is fully initialised and
only allow one ioctl at a time.
This stops udev trying to load the firmware before to card is fully up.

patch ported from wlan-ng-devel

Karl Relton <karllinuxtest.relton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> spotted that this was
missing from the staging version,
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2009-February/003890.html

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
This has only had basic testing, & I haven't tried loading the firmware
yet.
regards
Richard


diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
index 59e5ad1..f6cc298 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ static int p80211knetdev_do_ioctl(netdevice_t *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)

WLAN_LOG_DEBUG(2, "rx'd ioctl, cmd=%d, len=%d\n", cmd, req->len);

+ mutex_lock(&wlandev->ioctl_lock);
#ifdef SIOCETHTOOL
if (cmd == SIOCETHTOOL) {
result = p80211netdev_ethtool(wlandev, (void __user *) ifr->ifr_data);
@@ -662,6 +663,7 @@ static int p80211knetdev_do_ioctl(netdevice_t *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
result = -ENOMEM;
}
bail:
+ mutex_unlock(&wlandev->ioctl_lock);
DBFEXIT;

return result; /* If allocate,copyfrom or copyto fails, return errno */
@@ -823,6 +825,13 @@ int wlan_setup(wlandevice_t *wlandev)
dev->ml_priv = wlandev;
dev->hard_start_xmit = p80211knetdev_hard_start_xmit;
dev->get_stats = p80211knetdev_get_stats;
+
+ mutex_init(&wlandev->ioctl_lock);
+ /* block ioctls until fully initialised. Don't forget to call
+ allow_ioctls at some point!*/
+ mutex_lock(&wlandev->ioctl_lock);
+
+
#ifdef HAVE_PRIVATE_IOCTL
dev->do_ioctl = p80211knetdev_do_ioctl;
#endif
@@ -1207,3 +1216,8 @@ static void p80211knetdev_tx_timeout( netdevice_t *netdev)

DBFEXIT;
}
+
+
+void p80211_allow_ioctls(wlandevice_t *wlandev) {
+ mutex_unlock(&wlandev->ioctl_lock);
+}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h
index 940146f..da49552 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ typedef struct wlandevice
u8 spy_number;
char spy_address[IW_MAX_SPY][ETH_ALEN];
struct iw_quality spy_stat[IW_MAX_SPY];
+
+ struct mutex ioctl_lock;
} wlandevice_t;

/* WEP stuff */
@@ -251,4 +253,7 @@ int unregister_wlandev(wlandevice_t *wlandev);
void p80211netdev_rx(wlandevice_t *wlandev, struct sk_buff *skb);
void p80211netdev_hwremoved(wlandevice_t *wlandev);

+void p80211_allow_ioctls(wlandevice_t *wlandev);
+
+
#endif
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
index 8f7b1f2..78c7504 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static int prism2sta_probe_usb(

done:
DBFEXIT;
-
+ p80211_allow_ioctls(wlandev);
usb_set_intfdata(interface, wlandev);
return result;
}


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