[PATCH] NET: nl80211, fix lock imbalance and netdev referencing

[Jiri Slaby]

Stanse found that nl80211_set_wiphy imporperly handles a lock and netdev
reference and contains unreachable code. It is because there return statement
isntead of assignment to result variable. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 85285b4..fbfac58 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static int nl80211_set_wiphy(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		int idx, mbm = 0;
 
 		if (!rdev->ops->set_tx_power) {
-			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+			result = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 			goto bad_res;
 		}
 
-- 
1.7.1


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