mac80211: simplify station/aggregation code

A number of places use RCU locking for accessing
the station list, even though they do not need
to. Use mutex locking instead to prepare for the
locking changes I want to make. The mlme code is
also using a WLAN_STA_DISASSOC flag that has the
same meaning as WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA, so use that.

While doing so, combine places where we loop
over stations twice, and optimise away some of
the loops by checking if the hardware supports
aggregation at all first.

Also fix a more theoretical race condition: right
now we could resume, set up an aggregation session,
and right after tear it down again due to the code
that is needed for hardware reconfiguration here.
Also mark add a comment to that code marking it as
a workaround.

Finally, remove a pointless aggregation disabling
loop when an interface is stopped, directly after
that we remove all stations from it which will also
disable all aggregation sessions that may still be
active, and does so in a race-free way unlike the
current loop that doesn't block new sessions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index 5b79d552780a..a54cf146ed50 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -1138,18 +1138,6 @@ int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 
-	/* Clear Suspend state so that ADDBA requests can be processed */
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-
-	if (hw->flags & IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION) {
-		list_for_each_entry_rcu(sta, &local->sta_list, list) {
-			clear_sta_flags(sta, WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA);
-		}
-	}
-
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
 	/* setup RTS threshold */
 	drv_set_rts_threshold(local, hw->wiphy->rts_threshold);
 
@@ -1202,13 +1190,26 @@ int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 		}
 	}
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
+	/*
+	 * Clear the WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA flag so new aggregation
+	 * sessions can be established after a resume.
+	 *
+	 * Also tear down aggregation sessions since reconfiguring
+	 * them in a hardware restart scenario is not easily done
+	 * right now, and the hardware will have lost information
+	 * about the sessions, but we and the AP still think they
+	 * are active. This is really a workaround though.
+	 */
 	if (hw->flags & IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_AGGREGATION) {
-		list_for_each_entry_rcu(sta, &local->sta_list, list) {
+		mutex_lock(&local->sta_mtx);
+
+		list_for_each_entry(sta, &local->sta_list, list) {
 			ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions(sta);
+			clear_sta_flags(sta, WLAN_STA_BLOCK_BA);
 		}
+
+		mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
 	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	/* add back keys */
 	list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list)