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mac80211_hwsim: Make sure beacon_timer gets deleted
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It was possible to trigger a kernel panic because beacon_timer may not
have been deleted in all cases when the kernel module was removed while
hostapd was still running.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen authored and John W. Linville committed Nov 10, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static void mac80211_hwsim_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
struct mac80211_hwsim_data *data = hw->priv;
data->started = 0;
del_timer(&data->beacon_timer);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s:%s\n", wiphy_name(hw->wiphy), __func__);
}

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