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authorBrian Cavagnolo2009-01-16 19:04:49 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville2009-01-22 13:55:00 -0500
commit5dc306f3bd1d4cfdf79df39221b3036eab1ddcf3 (patch)
tree321bf9aa946024bdb171a9b1180dc0f73158dcba /net/mac80211
parent6d317482944250228255bcbe97a95b7e7ad9a538 (diff)
mac80211: decrement ref count to netdev after launching mesh discovery
After launching mesh discovery in tx path, reference count was not being decremented. This was preventing module unload. Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.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/tx.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index a4af3a124cce..4278e545638f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1307,8 +1307,10 @@ int ieee80211_master_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr3))
memcpy(hdr->addr1, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN);
else
- if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, osdata))
- return 0;
+ if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, osdata)) {
+ dev_put(odev);
+ return 0;
+ }
if (memcmp(odev->dev_addr, hdr->addr4, ETH_ALEN) != 0)
IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(&osdata->u.mesh,
fwded_frames);