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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2008-11-14 14:44:22 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-11-25 16:41:40 -0500
commit4ada424db196c78746fec255d493cacb1c9feddf (patch)
tree8fc36e480aa46b8cfebd6aff95b8d1a40b910f33 /net/mac80211
parent4d3601b234a51fdd268c8ef8068d239e26dd7ef1 (diff)
downloadlinux-4ada424db196c78746fec255d493cacb1c9feddf.tar.gz
mac80211: don't assume driver has been attached on registration
mac80211's ieee80211_register_hw() is often called within the
probe path so it cannot assume the device's driver structure
has been attached yet so to create a workqueue instead of
using driver->name use the wiphy's phy%d name. The name doesn't
really matter anyway.

This should fix sporadic oopses found when we race to beat the
driver pointer setting. Not even sure how this was working properly.

http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=ieee80211_register_hw

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/main.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index d631dc96c323..cec9b6d3e1ce 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -722,7 +722,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_alloc_hw);
 int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
-	const char *name;
 	int result;
 	enum ieee80211_band band;
 	struct net_device *mdev;
@@ -787,8 +786,8 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	mdev->header_ops = &ieee80211_header_ops;
 	mdev->set_multicast_list = ieee80211_master_set_multicast_list;
 
-	name = wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)->driver->name;
-	local->hw.workqueue = create_freezeable_workqueue(name);
+	local->hw.workqueue =
+		create_freezeable_workqueue(wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy));
 	if (!local->hw.workqueue) {
 		result = -ENOMEM;
 		goto fail_workqueue;