Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:39:49 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | [patch 05/32] mac80211: decrement ref count to netdev after launching mesh discovery |
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
commit 5dc306f3bd1d4cfdf79df39221b3036eab1ddcf3 upstream.
After launching mesh discovery in tx path, reference count was not being
decremented. This was preventing module unload.
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1335,8 +1335,10 @@ int ieee80211_master_start_xmit(struct s
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr3))
memcpy(hdr->addr1, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN);
else
- if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, odev))
+ if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, odev)) {
+ dev_put(odev);
return 0;
+ }
if (memcmp(odev->dev_addr, hdr->addr4, ETH_ALEN) != 0)
IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(&osdata->u.sta,
fwded_frames);
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