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mac80211: only warn once on chanctx_conf being NULL 

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>
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Yibo Zhao 2019-06-14 19:01:52 +08:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 588f7d39b3
commit 5635723401
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@ -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;
}