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Re: [PATCH 1/7] mac80211: fix possible memory leak on AP CSA failure

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On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 15:21 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote:
> If CSA for AP interface failed and the interface
> was not stopped afterwards another CSA request
> would leak sdata->u.ap.next_beacon.

>  void ieee80211_csa_finish(struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
>  {
>  	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = vif_to_sdata(vif);
> @@ -3019,15 +3034,9 @@ static void ieee80211_csa_finalize(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>  	sdata->vif.csa_active = false;
>  	switch (sdata->vif.type) {
>  	case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
> -		err = ieee80211_assign_beacon(sdata, sdata->u.ap.next_beacon);
> +		err = ieee80211_ap_finish_csa(sdata);
>  		if (err < 0)
>  			return;
> -
> -		changed |= err;

This looks a bit like somebody had intended to batch the
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify() calls, which would probably be a good
thing. You're breaking them apart even further - maybe we should
actually batch them instead by moving ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify()
after the switch()?

johannes

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