From d537f5fdfcc9c57c1e3b9fb316a4bed2bf7597e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:34:11 +0200
Subject: nl80211: fix error in generic netif_running check

Yikes! The error return keeps a netdev reference
and the rdev mutex locked, fix that!

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'net')

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 8826888..9942f0b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4418,6 +4418,8 @@ static int nl80211_pre_doit(struct genl_ops *ops, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		}
 		if (ops->internal_flags & NL80211_FLAG_CHECK_NETDEV_UP &&
 		    !netif_running(dev)) {
+			cfg80211_unlock_rdev(rdev);
+			dev_put(dev);
 			if (rtnl)
 				rtnl_unlock();
 			return -ENETDOWN;
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