[PATCH 3.12 10/82] mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21T00:45:10Z

From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>

commit 0297ea17bf7879fb5846fafd1be4c0471e72848d upstream.

When the driver cannot start the AP or when the assignement
of the beacon goes wrong, we need to unassign the vif.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -995,8 +995,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wip
IEEE80211_P2P_OPPPS_ENABLE_BIT;

err = ieee80211_assign_beacon(sdata, &params->beacon);
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err < 0) {
+ ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
return err;
+ }
changed |= err;

err = drv_start_ap(sdata->local, sdata);
@@ -1005,6 +1007,7 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wip
if (old)
kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(sdata->u.ap.beacon, NULL);
+ ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
return err;
}