Patch "nl80211: fix sched scan netlink socket owner destruction" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nl80211: fix sched scan netlink socket owner destruction

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
nl80211-fix-sched-scan-netlink-socket-owner-destruction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:57:14 +0100
Subject: nl80211: fix sched scan netlink socket owner destruction

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

commit 753aacfd2e95df6a0caf23c03dc309020765bea9 upstream.

A single netlink socket might own multiple interfaces *and* a scheduled scan request (which might belong to another interface), so when it goes away both may need to be destroyed.

Remove the schedule_scan_stop indirection to fix this - it's only needed for interface destruction because of the way this works right now, with a single work taking care of all interfaces.

---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |   16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

@@ -13168,13 +13168,17 @@ static int nl80211_netlink_notify(struct
 
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(rdev, &cfg80211_rdev_list, list) {
 		bool schedule_destroy_work = false;
-		bool schedule_scan_stop = false;
 		struct cfg80211_sched_scan_request *sched_scan_req =
 			rcu_dereference(rdev->sched_scan_req);
 
 		if (sched_scan_req && notify->portid &&
-		    sched_scan_req->owner_nlportid == notify->portid)
-			schedule_scan_stop = true;
+		    sched_scan_req->owner_nlportid == notify->portid) {
+			sched_scan_req->owner_nlportid = 0;
+
+			if (rdev->ops->sched_scan_stop &&
+			    rdev->wiphy.flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN)
+				schedule_work(&rdev->sched_scan_stop_wk);
+		}
 
 		list_for_each_entry_rcu(wdev, &rdev->wdev_list, list) {
 			cfg80211_mlme_unregister_socket(wdev, notify->portid);

@@ -13205,12 +13209,6 @@ static int nl80211_netlink_notify(struct
 				spin_unlock(&rdev->destroy_list_lock);
 				schedule_work(&rdev->destroy_work);
 			}
-		} else if (schedule_scan_stop) {
-			sched_scan_req->owner_nlportid = 0;
-
-			if (rdev->ops->sched_scan_stop &&
-			    rdev->wiphy.flags & WIPHY_FLAG_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SCAN)
-				schedule_work(&rdev->sched_scan_stop_wk);
 		}
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/nl80211-fix-sched-scan-netlink-socket-owner-destruction.patch