From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.
Cc: [email protected] Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index 453b4e741780..e1cb22c16530 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name); if (ret < 0) { - free_netdev(ndev); + ieee80211_if_free(ndev); return ret; } @@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, ret = register_netdevice(ndev); if (ret) { - free_netdev(ndev); + ieee80211_if_free(ndev); return ret; } } -- 2.8.0.rc3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
