Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:39:49 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: [patch 05/32] mac80211: decrement ref count to netdev after
	launching mesh discovery
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2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>

commit 5dc306f3bd1d4cfdf79df39221b3036eab1ddcf3 upstream.

After launching mesh discovery in tx path, reference count was not being
decremented.  This was preventing module unload.

Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 net/mac80211/tx.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1335,8 +1335,10 @@ int ieee80211_master_start_xmit(struct s
 			if (is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr3))
 				memcpy(hdr->addr1, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN);
 			else
-				if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, odev))
+				if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, odev)) {
+					dev_put(odev);
 					return  0;
+				}
 			if (memcmp(odev->dev_addr, hdr->addr4, ETH_ALEN) != 0)
 				IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(&osdata->u.sta,
 							     fwded_frames);

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