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author | Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> | 2010-08-21 14:18:09 +0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-08-23 18:15:37 -0700 |
commit | 51a00eaf6e008b60943af6ab68c17ac3622208dc (patch) | |
tree | 4333cdeeb875c4378e83c37681729619e6e1034e /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
parent | 1189f130f89b73eecb6117c0fc5e90abbcb7faa0 (diff) |
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>
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