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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-12-06 15:47:38 +0100
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-01-03 13:01:29 +0100
commit458f4f9e960b9a3b674c4b87d996eef186b1fe83 (patch)
treefebf655badc2a045b3aaaf63271226729c76e325 /include/net/cfg80211.h
parent379b82f4c9dc6e67bf61aa61b096c06a2f320f60 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/cfg80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/cfg80211.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index c222e5fbf53..f3be58a2964 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -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) */