* [PATCH] mac80211: fix register_hw error path
@ 2009-08-19 17:45 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2009-08-19 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Linville; +Cc: linux-wireless
"cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request"
introduced a bug into the error path, because now
we allocate the entire scan request and not just
the channel list (the channel list is allocated
together with the scan request) -- on errors we
thus also need to free the entire scan request.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
---
net/mac80211/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/main.c 2009-08-19 19:44:18.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/main.c 2009-08-19 19:44:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee802
fail_workqueue:
wiphy_unregister(local->hw.wiphy);
fail_wiphy_register:
- kfree(local->int_scan_req->channels);
+ kfree(local->int_scan_req);
return result;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_register_hw);
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