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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Fix for crash in cfg80211
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Srinivasan B <srinivasanb@posedge.com>
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:42:33 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 12:40 +0530, Srinivasan B wrote:
> Patch Description:
>                      cfg80211 module crashes when cfg80211 & mac80211 
> loaded and unloading lmac driver.
> 
> Scenario Explanation:
>                      (Step 1) : cfg80211, mac80211 and lmac driver 
> modules are loaded initially.
>                      (Step 2) : unload the lmac driver.
>                                      then any dev calls to stack causes 
> the crash.
> Code Changes:
>                      dev->ethtools_ops is assigned during 
> NETDEV_REGISTER and the same can be cleared during NETDEV_UNREGISTER.

This doesn't make any sense to me at all.

johannes