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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmm. Then again, I think we can call cfg80211_process_wdev_events() from
> case NETDEV_UNREGISTER though, probably after removing from the list.
> Maybe you could try that?

That solves the issue - confirmed that kmemleak now shuts up, and with
some added printks to confirm event creation and freeing.
Patch coming up, titled:    cfg80211: process pending events when
unregistering net device

Even if libertas isn't quite doing the right thing here, I think this
is the right thing to do. I guess there are other situations, perhaps
more legitimate, where we can reach this point with events in the
queue.

> I'm not 100% sure about the API in this area right now though, it's been
> a while and I never worked much with this API (rather than the mac80211
> one with auth/assoc/disassoc/deauth.)

I think we both feel that removing it is correct. I'll test this when
I find some free time, and if things seem OK i'll post a libertas
patch in addition to the cfg80211 fix.

Thanks
Daniel
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