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From 563572340173865a9a356e6bb02579e6998a876d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:01:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: only warn once on chanctx_conf being NULL
Git-commit: 563572340173865a9a356e6bb02579e6998a876d
Patch-mainline: v5.2-rc6
References: bsc#1051510 bsc#1111666

In multiple SSID cases, it takes time to prepare every AP interface
to be ready in initializing phase. If a sta already knows everything it
needs to join one of the APs and sends authentication to the AP which
is not fully prepared at this point of time, AP's channel context
could be NULL. As a result, warning message occurs.

Even worse, if the AP is under attack via tools such as MDK3 and massive
authentication requests are received in a very short time, console will
be hung due to kernel warning messages.

WARN_ON_ONCE() could be a better way for indicating warning messages
without duplicate messages to flood the console.

Johannes: We still need to address the underlying problem, but we          don't really have a good handle on it yet. Suppress the          worst side-effects for now.

Signed-off-by: Zhi Chen <zhichen@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>
[johannes: add note, change subject]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index a8af4aafa117..682d0ab1bf89 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ ieee80211_get_sband(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	chanctx_conf = rcu_dereference(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf);
 
-	if (WARN_ON(!chanctx_conf)) {
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!chanctx_conf)) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.16.4