netdev - Re: [PATCH] d80211: Only free WEP crypto ciphers when they have been allocated correctly.

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Date:	Sat, 6 Jan 2007 12:29:11 -0500
From:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
To:	Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@...planet.nl>
Cc:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: Only free WEP crypto ciphers when they have been allocated correctly.

On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:00, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> The d80211 stack still tries to free the WEP crypto ciphers, even when
> allocating them previously has failed. 
Actually, the code might not even have tried to allocate them. The ciphers are 
guaranteed to be allocated when the device is registered however, so we 
should be able to free it safely on unregister.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
---

 net/d80211/ieee80211.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/d80211/ieee80211.c b/net/d80211/ieee80211.c
index 6e10db5..926d160 100644
--- a/net/d80211/ieee80211.c
+++ b/net/d80211/ieee80211.c
@@ -4715,6 +4715,7 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee
 	skb_queue_purge(&local->skb_queue_unreliable);
 
 	ieee80211_dev_free_index(local);
+	ieee80211_wep_free(local);
 	ieee80211_led_exit(local);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_unregister_hw);
@@ -4724,7 +4725,6 @@ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
 
 	ieee80211_if_free(local->mdev);
-	ieee80211_wep_free(local);
 	ieee80211_dev_free(local);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_free_hw);


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