mac80211: split sta_info_add

sta_info_add() has two functions: allocating a station info
structure and inserting it into the hash table/list. Splitting
these two functions allows allocating with GFP_KERNEL in many
places instead of GFP_ATOMIC which is now required by the RCU
protection. Additionally, in many places RCU protection is now
no longer needed at all because between sta_info_alloc() and
sta_info_insert() the caller owns the structure.

This fixes a few race conditions with setting initial flags
and similar, but not all (see comments in ieee80211_sta.c and
cfg.c). More documentation on the existing races will be in
a follow-up patch.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
index 576eee8..aee0b9e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
@@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ void mesh_neighbour_update(u8 *hw_addr, u64 rates, struct net_device *dev,
 bool mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(struct ieee802_11_elems *ie,
 			      struct net_device *dev);
 void mesh_accept_plinks_update(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
-struct sta_info *mesh_plink_add(u8 *hw_addr, u64 rates,
-				struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
+struct sta_info *mesh_plink_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
+				  u8 *hw_addr, u64 rates, gfp_t gfp);
 void mesh_plink_broken(struct sta_info *sta);
 void mesh_plink_deactivate(struct sta_info *sta);
 int mesh_plink_open(struct sta_info *sta);