From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:17:20 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: ath6kl: Fix race in heart beat polling
X-Git-Tag: next-20130822~73^2~54^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f32036e823c45cb4974aab1d0ae66d716bfc9aa6;p=karo-tx-linux.git

ath6kl: Fix race in heart beat polling

Make sure to cancel heart beat timer before
freeing wmi to avoid potential NULL pointer
dereference.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
index 6a67881f94d6..4f316bdcbab5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
@@ -1836,6 +1836,9 @@ void ath6kl_stop_txrx(struct ath6kl *ar)
 
 	clear_bit(WMI_READY, &ar->flag);
 
+	if (ar->fw_recovery.enable)
+		del_timer_sync(&ar->fw_recovery.hb_timer);
+
 	/*
 	 * After wmi_shudown all WMI events will be dropped. We
 	 * need to cleanup the buffers allocated in AP mode and