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Commit 0e3a39b5 authored by Ben Greear's avatar Ben Greear Committed by Johannes Berg
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wireless: add comments about bss refcounting 



Should help the next person that tries to understand
the bss refcounting logic.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 6f390908

net/wireless/scan.c

+4 −0
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@@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ static int cmp_bss(struct cfg80211_bss *a, 
	}

}



/* Returned bss is reference counted and must be cleaned up appropriately. */

struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,

				      struct ieee80211_channel *channel,

				      const u8 *bssid,
@@ -678,6 +679,7 @@ static bool cfg80211_combine_bsses(struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev, 
	return true;

}



/* Returned bss is reference counted and must be cleaned up appropriately. */

static struct cfg80211_internal_bss *

cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *dev,

		    struct cfg80211_internal_bss *tmp)
@@ -866,6 +868,7 @@ cfg80211_get_bss_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy, const u8 *ie, size_t ielen, 
	return channel;

}



/* Returned bss is reference counted and must be cleaned up appropriately. */

struct cfg80211_bss*

cfg80211_inform_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,

		    struct ieee80211_channel *channel,
@@ -923,6 +926,7 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy, 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_inform_bss);



/* Returned bss is reference counted and must be cleaned up appropriately. */

struct cfg80211_bss *

cfg80211_inform_bss_frame(struct wiphy *wiphy,

			  struct ieee80211_channel *channel,

net/wireless/sme.c

+3 −0
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@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ void cfg80211_conn_work(struct work_struct *work) 
	rtnl_unlock();

}



/* Returned bss is reference counted and must be cleaned up appropriately. */

static struct cfg80211_bss *cfg80211_get_conn_bss(struct wireless_dev *wdev)

{

	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wdev->wiphy);
@@ -699,6 +700,7 @@ void cfg80211_connect_result(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid, 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_connect_result);



/* Consumes bss object one way or another */

void __cfg80211_roamed(struct wireless_dev *wdev,

		       struct cfg80211_bss *bss,

		       const u8 *req_ie, size_t req_ie_len,
@@ -775,6 +777,7 @@ void cfg80211_roamed(struct net_device *dev, 
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_roamed);



/* Consumes bss object one way or another */

void cfg80211_roamed_bss(struct net_device *dev,

			 struct cfg80211_bss *bss, const u8 *req_ie,

			 size_t req_ie_len, const u8 *resp_ie,