From c355184cd3cd58c9ffc78f2a17e0ac3563312ea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jouni Malinen Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:19:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] hostap: Do not free local->hw_priv before unregistering netdev local->hw_priv was being freed and set to NULL just before calling prism2_free_local_data(). However, this may expose a race condition in which something ends up trying to use hw_priv during shutdown. I haven't noticed this happening, but better be safe than sorry, so let's postpone hw_priv freeing to happen only after prism2_free_local_data() has returned. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c index 85d3f8a2953..78d67b408b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.c @@ -568,10 +568,8 @@ static int prism2_plx_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, return hostap_hw_ready(dev); fail: - kfree(hw_priv); - if (local) - local->hw_priv = NULL; prism2_free_local_data(dev); + kfree(hw_priv); if (irq_registered && dev) free_irq(dev->irq, dev); @@ -604,9 +602,8 @@ static void prism2_plx_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) if (dev->irq) free_irq(dev->irq, dev); - kfree(iface->local->hw_priv); - iface->local->hw_priv = NULL; prism2_free_local_data(dev); + kfree(hw_priv); pci_disable_device(pdev); } -- cgit v1.2.3