3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu>
commit 4479004e6409087d1b4986881dc98c6c15dffb28 upstream.
If we don't do this, and we then fail to recreate the debugfs
directory during a mode change, then we will fail later trying
to add stations to this now bogus directory:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000006c
IP: [<c0a92202>] mutex_lock+0x12/0x30
Call Trace:
[<c0678ab4>] start_creating+0x44/0xc0
[<c0679203>] debugfs_create_dir+0x13/0xf0
[<f8a938ae>] ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add+0x6e/0x490 [mac80211]
Signed-off-by: Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ void ieee80211_debugfs_remove_netdev(str
debugfs_remove_recursive(sdata->vif.debugfs_dir);
sdata->vif.debugfs_dir = NULL;
+ sdata->debugfs.subdir_stations = NULL;
}
void ieee80211_debugfs_rename_netdev(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
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