[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Feb 21 12:24:33 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap
to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 47ad84b3e2d4442046832b07bf9f1cc3d5dfed68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:07:42 +0200
Subject: mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap
commit 0297ea17bf7879fb5846fafd1be4c0471e72848d upstream.
When the driver cannot start the AP or when the assignement
of the beacon goes wrong, we need to unassign the vif.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/mac80211/cfg.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 2116285..216550e9 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -989,8 +989,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
IEEE80211_P2P_OPPPS_ENABLE_BIT;
err = ieee80211_assign_beacon(sdata, ¶ms->beacon);
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err < 0) {
+ ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
return err;
+ }
changed |= err;
err = drv_start_ap(sdata->local, sdata);
@@ -999,6 +1001,7 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
if (old)
kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(sdata->u.ap.beacon, NULL);
+ ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
return err;
}
--
1.9.0
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