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Re: [RFC 2/2] mac80211: Fix bss ref leak.

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On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 14:32 -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  static void ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
> -					 bool assoc)
> +					 bool assoc, bool put_bss)

Do we _really_ need another argument? Shouldn't it always be put in the
non-assoc case anyway, at least if non-NULL?

> @@ -2415,6 +2415,10 @@ static void ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  		ieee80211_vif_release_channel(sdata);
>  	}
>  
> +	if (put_bss)
> +		cfg80211_put_bss(sdata->local->hw.wiphy, assoc_data->bss);
> +
> +

just one blank line

> +	/** bss will be passed back to calling code, and that code must
> +	 * deal with properly putting the reference.
> +	 */

/** is for kernel-doc only

>  	return RX_MGMT_CFG80211_RX_ASSOC;

You're working on some pretty old code here ... If you want this to be
in stable the patch really needs to be smaller, I think. And for
mac80211-next this can't apply.

johannes

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