cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device
authorDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:41:48 +0000 (18:41 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:04:30 +0000 (12:04 -0700)
commitb27c59d2c23d5f326a74e02a799cc4d00246165a
treedb452bc310e388ecea4402710bb0ca2143de286f
parent9f75ebd871f7f0a613fdb4e1231fbd540916872c
cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device

commit 1f6fc43e621167492ed4b7f3b4269c584c3d6ccc upstream.

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>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/wireless/core.c
net/wireless/core.h
net/wireless/util.c