From 87757a917b0b3c0787e0563c679762152be81312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 06:44:03 -0700 Subject: net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many() unregister_netdevice_many() API is error prone and we had too many bugs because of dangling LIST_HEAD on stacks. See commit f87e6f47933e3e ("net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD") In fact, instead of making sure no caller leaves an active list_head, just force a list_del() in the callee. No one seems to need to access the list after unregister_netdevice_many() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211') diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index b8d331e7d883..34799e06ee01 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1758,7 +1758,6 @@ void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local) } mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx); unregister_netdevice_many(&unreg_list); - list_del(&unreg_list); list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &wdev_list, list) { list_del(&sdata->list); -- cgit v1.2.3