[patch 05/32] mac80211: decrement ref count to netdev afterlaunching mesh discovery

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 21:48:45 EST


2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5dc306f3bd1d4cfdf79df39221b3036eab1ddcf3 upstream.

After launching mesh discovery in tx path, reference count was not being
decremented. This was preventing module unload.

Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1335,8 +1335,10 @@ int ieee80211_master_start_xmit(struct s
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr3))
memcpy(hdr->addr1, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN);
else
- if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, odev))
+ if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, odev)) {
+ dev_put(odev);
return 0;
+ }
if (memcmp(odev->dev_addr, hdr->addr4, ETH_ALEN) != 0)
IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(&osdata->u.sta,
fwded_frames);

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