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mwifiex: fix memory leak issue when driver unload
authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Tue, 7 May 2013 02:46:54 +0000 (19:46 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 19 May 2013 18:38:27 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
commit09ec45665014181f41022f1ca15db2e03a6323a8
treeacd7c93f534da6a36b51928393d8e2b9c6791665
parent8dd844a870b7f074d8443a30c06556f6631f8021
mwifiex: fix memory leak issue when driver unload

commit f16fdc9d2dc1e5b270e9a08377587e831e0d36ac upstream.

After unregister_netdevice() call the request is queued and
reg_state is changed to NETREG_UNREGISTERING.
As we check for NETREG_UNREGISTERED state, free_netdev() never
gets executed causing memory leak.

Initialize "dev->destructor" to free_netdev() to free device
data after unregistration.

Reported-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c