linux/include
Johannes Berg 1976c7689a cfg80211/mac80211: fix BSS leaks when abandoning assoc attempts
commit e6f462df9a upstream.

When mac80211 abandons an association attempt, it may free
all the data structures, but inform cfg80211 and userspace
about it only by sending the deauth frame it received, in
which case cfg80211 has no link to the BSS struct that was
used and will not cfg80211_unhold_bss() it.

Fix this by providing a way to inform cfg80211 of this with
the BSS entry passed, so that it can clean up properly, and
use this ability in the appropriate places in mac80211.

This isn't ideal: some code is more or less duplicated and
tracing is missing. However, it's a fairly small change and
it's thus easier to backport - cleanups can come later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2017-01-09 08:32:17 +01:00
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misc cxl: Add cxl_check_and_switch_mode() API to switch bi-modal cards 2016-07-14 20:28:11 +10:00
net cfg80211/mac80211: fix BSS leaks when abandoning assoc attempts 2017-01-09 08:32:17 +01:00
pcmcia pcmcia/ds.h: introduce helper for pcmcia_driver module boilerplate 2013-03-15 12:26:03 -07:00
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