From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
"John W.Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Tuttle <linux-kernel@ttuttle.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
LWML <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:39:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196991573.3170.43.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071206093922.GA7356@cvg>
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:39 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak
>
> This patch does fix rate control algo reference leak in case
> if network device has been failed to register. In this case
> special flag priv->mac80211_registered is not set and the
> rate algo reference is not freeing on module unload. That leads
> to OOPs in further ieee80211 rate register/unregister procedure
> (by any callee).
>
> It should fix the bug #9470
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9470
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 1 +
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
ACK. Thanks for the fix.
John, I think it should be in 2.6.24.
Thanks,
-yi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 9:39 [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-12-07 1:39 ` Zhu Yi [this message]
2007-12-08 14:56 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-10 3:04 ` Zhu Yi
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