From 258086a48b766d12a500f98834654ffa927ca475 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Lamparter Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:48:25 +0200 Subject: mac80211: cancel restart_work in ieee80211_unregister_hw Unlike most other workqueue-tasks, the restart_work is not scheduled onto mac80211's private per-interface workqueue, but onto one of the system-wide workqueues. Therefore the mac80211-stack has to cancel any pending restarts, before destroying the shared device context and handing back the memory. Otherwise - under very unlucky circumstances - there could be a stale work- item left, because some other kernel component might have delayed the execution of ieee80211_restart_work for too long. Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 5756fba63d48..28415de5f476 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rtnl_unlock(); + cancel_work_sync(&local->restart_work); cancel_work_sync(&local->reconfig_filter); ieee80211_clear_tx_pending(local); -- cgit v1.2.3