cfg80211: free sme on connection failures

cfg80211 is notified about connection failures by
__cfg80211_connect_result() call. However, this
function currently does not free cfg80211 sme.

This results in hanging connection attempts in some cases

e.g. when mac80211 authentication attempt is denied,
we have this function call:
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_auth() -> cfg80211_rx_mlme_mgmt() ->
cfg80211_process_auth() -> cfg80211_sme_rx_auth() ->
__cfg80211_connect_result()

but cfg80211_sme_free() is never get called.

Fixes: ceca7b712 ("cfg80211: separate internal SME implementation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.10+)
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Eliad Peller 2014-04-30 15:58:13 +03:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent f4ebddf9ab
commit c1fbb25884
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ void cfg80211_conn_work(struct work_struct *work)
NULL, 0, NULL, 0,
WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE,
false, NULL);
cfg80211_sme_free(wdev);
}
wdev_unlock(wdev);
}
@ -648,6 +647,7 @@ void __cfg80211_connect_result(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *bssid,
cfg80211_unhold_bss(bss_from_pub(bss));
cfg80211_put_bss(wdev->wiphy, bss);
}
cfg80211_sme_free(wdev);
return;
}