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mac80211: safely free beacon in ieee80211_if_reinit
authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:27:42 +0000 (16:27 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:42:00 +0000 (15:42 -0500)
commit06f47e2844ce5cdd799d67b4826486598b299332
treed299c8113e8b0c96368165fbde3da440f1ea7142
parent54e8353b4bdb431658d03bf66c414ca3639f5a20
mac80211: safely free beacon in ieee80211_if_reinit

If ieee80211_if_reinit() is called from ieee80211_unregister_hw()
then it is possible that the driver will still request a beacon
(it is allowed to until ieee80211_unregister_hw() has returned.)
This means we need to use an RCU-protected write to the beacon
information even in this function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/ieee80211_iface.c