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| author | Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> | 2013-06-07 11:03:00 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2013-06-12 15:06:48 -0400 |
| commit | ee06fcad742ab52a1ba67ba734fee6a98af51621 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bf2e5edbf05ee40f50a54ddc704946a084ea4ac /drivers | |
| parent | c7773fc1ef55b7d1ed44a27900b86dc28351dec4 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c index 29828865ed69..8c402e7b97eb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c @@ -941,6 +941,10 @@ 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; |