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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-10-05 21:34:11 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-10-06 16:30:41 -0400
commitd537f5fdfcc9c57c1e3b9fb316a4bed2bf7597e7 (patch)
treeb81381e11aad48e7f068b061d037e5ac190a6211 /net/wireless
parente31b82136d1adc7a599b6e99d3321e5831841f5a (diff)
nl80211: fix error in generic netif_running check
Yikes! The error return keeps a netdev reference and the rdev mutex locked, fix that! Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 8826888cc14e..9942f0b061ff 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4418,6 +4418,8 @@ static int nl80211_pre_doit(struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb,
}
if (ops->internal_flags & NL80211_FLAG_CHECK_NETDEV_UP &&
!netif_running(dev)) {
+ cfg80211_unlock_rdev(rdev);
+ dev_put(dev);
if (rtnl)
rtnl_unlock();
return -ENETDOWN;