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

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On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 15:53 +0200, 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.

Applied both.

johannes

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