Commit 2dce4c2b authored Jul 02, 2009 by Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville Jul 07, 2009

cfg80211: fix refcount leak



The code in cfg80211's cfg80211_bss_update erroneously
grabs a reference to the BSS, which means that it will
never be freed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29, 2.6.30]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 76d8b64e

net/wireless/scan.c

+0 −1

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		@@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev,
		found = rb_find_bss(dev, res);

		if (found) {
		kref_get(&found->ref);
		found->pub.beacon_interval = res->pub.beacon_interval;
		found->pub.tsf = res->pub.tsf;
		found->pub.signal = res->pub.signal;