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

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Message-ID: <20070110211422.1acd6bca@griffin.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:14:22 +0100
From:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>
To:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
Cc:	Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@...planet.nl>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: Only free WEP crypto ciphers when they have
 been allocated correctly.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 12:29:11 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
> 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.

Applied to my tree, thanks for the patch.

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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