cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device
authorDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:41:48 +0000 (18:41 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:29:58 +0000 (14:29 -0400)
commit1f6fc43e621167492ed4b7f3b4269c584c3d6ccc
tree9d1ad634c1405a8bdd0f9439b598508203cee829
parentd4e5979c0da95791aa717c18e162540c7a596360
cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/wireless/core.c
net/wireless/core.h
net/wireless/util.c