cfg80211: fix refcount leak

The code in cfg80211's cfg80211_bss_update erroneously
grabs a reference to the BSS, which means that it will
never be freed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29, 2.6.30]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index e95b638..f8e71b3 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev,
        found = rb_find_bss(dev, res);
 
        if (found) {
-               kref_get(&found->ref);
                found->pub.beacon_interval = res->pub.beacon_interval;
                found->pub.tsf = res->pub.tsf;
                found->pub.signal = res->pub.signal;