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Staging: batman-adv: Don't use net_dev after dev_put
authorSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:18:09 +0000 (14:18 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:15:37 +0000 (18:15 -0700)
commit51a00eaf6e008b60943af6ab68c17ac3622208dc
tree4333cdeeb875c4378e83c37681729619e6e1034e
parent1189f130f89b73eecb6117c0fc5e90abbcb7faa0
Staging: batman-adv: Don't use net_dev after dev_put

dev_put allows a device to be freed when all its references are dropped.
After that we are not allowed to access that information anymore. Access
to the data structure of a net_device must be surrounded a dev_hold
and ended using dev_put.

batman-adv adds a device to its own management structure in
hardif_add_interface and will release it in hardif_remove_interface.
Thus it must hold a reference all the time between those functions to
prevent any access to the already released net_device structure.

Reported-by: Tim Glaremin <Tim.Glaremin@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c