From 883a649b737cdbe3ede7e50f3f939fd706ed5c4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislaw Gruszka Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:11:27 +0100 Subject: iwlegacy: do not nulify il->vif on reset This il->vif is dereferenced in different part of iwlegacy code, so do not nullify it. This should fix random crashes observed in companion with microcode errors i.e. crash in il3945_config_ap(). Additionally this should address also WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c:4656 il_mac_remove_interface at least one of the possible reasons of that warning. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c index 7b54dbb..b88bb27 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c @@ -5651,8 +5651,6 @@ il4965_bg_restart(struct work_struct *data) if (test_and_clear_bit(S_FW_ERROR, &il->status)) { mutex_lock(&il->mutex); - /* FIXME: do we dereference vif without mutex locked ? */ - il->vif = NULL; il->is_open = 0; __il4965_down(il); -- cgit v1.1