Messages in this thread | | | From | Junjie Mao <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: release driver when ieee80211_register_hw fails | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:23:02 +0800 |
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I was not familiar with the acquiring/releasing API either, until I met with this bug...
Perhaps we can use static checkers to avoid these issues as early as possible. Any suggestions?
Best Regards Junjie Mao
Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> writes:
> Acked-By: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> > > Hello Junjie, > > Junjie Mao [2014-10-28 9:31 +0800]: >> The driver is not released when ieee80211_register_hw fails in >> mac80211_hwsim_create_radio, leading to the access to the unregistered (and >> possibly freed) device in platform_driver_unregister: > > Many thanks for fixing this! Sorry about that, I don't know these bits > very well. > > Martin
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