On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 10:06 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> This patch deals with changes made in struct net_device by commit
> cf124db566e6 ("net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private
> netdev state."). This only looks for instances that need
> free_netdev() call, ie. struct net_device::needs_free_netdev == true.
I think we may need to worry about more kernel versions than just 4.12
here, since this stuff is getting backported, and then it would cause
double-frees.
I'm also considering simply removing the priv_destructor entirely from
mac80211, but I guess this would still apply to other drivers.
johannes
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