Commit bc00a91d authored Mar 03, 2014 by Johannes Berg

cfg80211: remove racy beacon_interval assignment



In case of AP mode, the beacon interval is already reset to
zero inside cfg80211_stop_ap(), and in the other modes it
isn't relevant. Remove the assignment to remove a potential
race since the assignment isn't properly locked.

Reported-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 1c37a72c

net/wireless/core.c

+0 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -788,8 +788,6 @@ void cfg80211_leave(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
		default:
		break;
		}

		wdev->beacon_interval = 0;
		}

		static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,

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