linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak

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Date:	Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:39:33 +0800
From:	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	"John W.Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Thomas Tuttle <linux-kernel@...ttle.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>,
	LWML <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak


On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:39 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi3945/4965 - fix rate control algo reference leak
> 
> This patch does fix rate control algo reference leak in case
> if network device has been failed to register. In this case
> special flag priv->mac80211_registered is not set and the
> rate algo reference is not freeing on module unload. That leads
> to OOPs in further ieee80211 rate register/unregister procedure
> (by any callee).
> 
> It should fix the bug #9470
> 
> 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9470
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

ACK. Thanks for the fix.

John, I think it should be in 2.6.24.

Thanks,
-yi
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