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nl80211: Make nl80211_send_mlme_event() atomic

One of the code paths sending deauth/disassoc events ends up calling
this function with rcu_read_lock held, so we must use GFP_ATOMIC in
allocation routines.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jouni Malinen 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      net/wireless/nl80211.c

+ 2 - 2
net/wireless/nl80211.c

@@ -3334,7 +3334,7 @@ static void nl80211_send_mlme_event(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 	struct sk_buff *msg;
 	void *hdr;
 
-	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!msg)
 		return;
 
@@ -3353,7 +3353,7 @@ static void nl80211_send_mlme_event(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, GFP_KERNEL);
+	genlmsg_multicast(msg, 0, nl80211_mlme_mcgrp.id, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	return;
 
  nla_put_failure: