From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backport: handle change in netdevice destructor usage
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:22:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1497471755.9377.10.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <079165f7-cccb-8712-7090-a9b9ed929dba@broadcom.com> (sfid-20170614_192839_655699_9738BE1E)
On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 19:28 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>
> All ieee80211_if_free() does is freeing the tstats and it deals with
> null pointers. So for mac80211 this is ok but not generically. Not
> sure how to tackle this in a semantic patch.
I think the problem only applies to the register_netdev[ice]() error
path directly, no? That is, you should be able to restrict it to that
having just failed?
johannes
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-12 9:06 [PATCH] backport: handle change in netdevice destructor usage Arend van Spriel
2017-06-12 9:11 ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-12 9:15 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-06-12 9:22 ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-13 20:59 ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-14 13:25 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-06-14 13:26 ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-14 17:28 ` Arend van Spriel
2017-06-14 20:22 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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