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authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>2014-01-27 11:07:42 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-22 12:41:26 -0800
commitbd5bcc09d807fcb6b6dc8495f51f34941f7fd0b1 (patch)
tree703eec87caa0b90e923d7361a499b602b8db891e /net
parent7cde93f4f7623d0b0dbe93edbd329d22a1ebcc78 (diff)
mac80211: release the channel in error path in start_ap
commit 0297ea17bf7879fb5846fafd1be4c0471e72848d upstream. When the driver cannot start the AP or when the assignement of the beacon goes wrong, we need to unassign the vif. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/cfg.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 5a1e1caa032..e922bf3f422 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -975,8 +975,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
IEEE80211_P2P_OPPPS_ENABLE_BIT;
err = ieee80211_assign_beacon(sdata, &params->beacon);
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err < 0) {
+ ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
return err;
+ }
changed |= err;
err = drv_start_ap(sdata->local, sdata);
@@ -985,6 +987,7 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
if (old)
kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(sdata->u.ap.beacon, NULL);
+ ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
return err;
}