regulatory: use RCU to protect global and wiphy regdomains

To simplify the locking and not require cfg80211_mutex
(which nl80211 uses to access the global regdomain) and
also to make it possible for drivers to access their
wiphy->regd safely, use RCU to protect these pointers.

Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg
2012-12-06 15:47:38 +01:00
parent 379b82f4c9
commit 458f4f9e96
5 changed files with 88 additions and 66 deletions

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@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ struct wiphy {
/* fields below are read-only, assigned by cfg80211 */
const struct ieee80211_regdomain *regd;
const struct ieee80211_regdomain __rcu *regd;
/* the item in /sys/class/ieee80211/ points to this,
* you need use set_wiphy_dev() (see below) */