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Re: [PATCH 1/2] cfg80211: require passing BSS struct back to cfg80211_assoc_timeout

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On 06/19/2013 06:53 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Doing so will allow us to hold the BSS (not just ref it) over the
association process, thus ensuring that it doesn't time out and
gets invisible to the user (e.g. in 'iw wlan0 link'.)

This also fixes a leak in mac80211 where it doesn't always release
the BSS struct properly in all cases where calling this function.
This leak was reported by Ben Greear.

I have not yet tested this, but I read it closely and
it appears to fix the same problem I tried to fix in
the 2/6 "Fix bss leak." patch.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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