From patchwork Tue Jul 22 22:20:51 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 372764 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D861400E6; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:31:42 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1X9iaw-0008US-Pv; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:31:38 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1X9iVF-0006Bu-0E for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:25:45 +0000 Received: from c-67-160-228-185.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.160.228.185] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9iS9-0001ed-HO; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:22:33 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1X9iS7-0005D8-Lw; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:22:31 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 3.8 040/116] mac80211: don't check netdev state for debugfs read/write Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:20:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1406067727-19683-41-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1406067727-19683-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1406067727-19683-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Emmanuel Grumbach , Johannes Berg , Arik Nemtsov X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.8.13.27 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Arik Nemtsov commit 923eaf367206e01f22c97aee22300e332d071916 upstream. Doing so will lead to an oops for a p2p-dev interface, since it has no netdev. Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c index cbde5cc..8736537 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c +++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c @@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_read( ssize_t ret = -EINVAL; read_lock(&dev_base_lock); - if (sdata->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED) - ret = (*format)(sdata, buf, sizeof(buf)); + ret = (*format)(sdata, buf, sizeof(buf)); read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); if (ret >= 0) @@ -62,8 +61,7 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_write( ret = -ENODEV; rtnl_lock(); - if (sdata->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED) - ret = (*write)(sdata, buf, count); + ret = (*write)(sdata, buf, count); rtnl_unlock(); return ret;