From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:04:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343937886.4471.29.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120802174148.536A39D401E@zog.reactivated.net>
On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 18:41 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> libertas currently calls cfg80211_disconnected() when it is being
> brought down. This causes an event to be allocated, but since the
> wdev is already removed from the rdev by the time that the event
> processing work executes, the event is never processed or freed.
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/95666
>
> Fix this leak, and other possible situations, by processing the event
> queue when a device is being unregistered. Thanks to Johannes Berg for
> the suggestion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
This should probably be Cc: stable too? John, can you pick up the patch,
since I see you already pulled my earlier pull requested?
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
johannes
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2012-08-02 17:41 [PATCH] cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device Daniel Drake
2012-08-02 20:04 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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