From 339a7c41c913035bf58579f6e47b4ba29da83795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 17:59:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: Do not free net device after it is unregistered. The error path in ieee80211_register_hw() may call the unregister_netdev() and right after it - the free_netdev(), which is wrong, since the unregister releases the device itself. So the proposed fix is to NULL the local->mdev after unregister is done and check this before calling free_netdev(). I checked - no code uses the local->mdev after unregister in this error path (but even if some did this would be a BUG). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/mac80211/main.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 9ad4e36..915afad 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -1766,6 +1766,7 @@ fail_wep: fail_rate: ieee80211_debugfs_remove_netdev(IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(local->mdev)); unregister_netdevice(local->mdev); + local->mdev = NULL; fail_dev: rtnl_unlock(); sta_info_stop(local); @@ -1773,8 +1774,10 @@ fail_sta_info: debugfs_hw_del(local); destroy_workqueue(local->hw.workqueue); fail_workqueue: - ieee80211_if_free(local->mdev); - local->mdev = NULL; + if (local->mdev != NULL) { + ieee80211_if_free(local->mdev); + local->mdev = NULL; + } fail_mdev_alloc: wiphy_unregister(local->hw.wiphy); return result; -- 2.7.4