From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:07:42 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap
X-Git-Tag: submit/tizen_common/20140905.094502~708
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=abb35aa82a51197698f556dcec31ca854f147172;p=sdk%2Femulator%2Femulator-kernel.git

mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap

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>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index bf773e0894b1..c6d417a3885f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -995,8 +995,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 					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 wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 		if (old)
 			kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head);
 		RCU_INIT_POINTER(sdata->u.ap.beacon, NULL);
+		ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
 		return err;
 	}