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From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Make sure to cancel heart beat timer before
freeing wmi to avoid potential NULL pointer
dereference.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
index 6a67881..4f316bd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
@@ -1836,6 +1836,9 @@ void ath6kl_stop_txrx(struct ath6kl *ar)
 
 	clear_bit(WMI_READY, &ar->flag);
 
+	if (ar->fw_recovery.enable)
+		del_timer_sync(&ar->fw_recovery.hb_timer);
+
 	/*
 	 * After wmi_shudown all WMI events will be dropped. We
 	 * need to cleanup the buffers allocated in AP mode and
-- 
1.7.9.5

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