Commit fcb37018 authored Jun 07, 2013 by Arend van Spriel Committed by John W. Linville Jun 13, 2013

brcmfmac: free primary net_device when brcmf_bus_start() fails

When initialization within brcmf_bus_start() fails on steps
before the brcmf_net_attach() the net_device for the primary
interface needs to be freed.

This patch resolves a panic during kernel boot as reported
by Stephen Warren.

ref.: http://mid.gmane.org/51AD1F22.2080004@wwwdotorg.org



Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent ea05fea9

drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -930,6 +930,10 @@ fail:
		brcmf_fws_del_interface(ifp);
		brcmf_fws_deinit(drvr);
		}
		if (drvr->iflist[0]) {
		free_netdev(ifp->ndev);
		drvr->iflist[0] = NULL;
		}
		if (p2p_ifp) {
		free_netdev(p2p_ifp->ndev);
		drvr->iflist[1] = NULL;