[PATCH 5/5] ath6kl: fix crash when interface is closed but scan is ongoing

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:52:33AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:23:36PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> I only combined the pending ath6kl patches, I did not edit them.
> >> Vasanth sent patch 4 few days earlier and that's why you see the
> >> change here. But if greg wants, I can drop patch 4 and resend the
> >> series.
> >
> > Part of the problem is that patch doesn't add the check for NULL
> > consistently throughout the function.  There is a place where a NULL
> > deref could still be triggered later on.  Let's just drop it instead
> > of fixing it.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> But I see that Greg applied the patch 4 already. So I just drop patch
> 4 from my patchset and resend patch 5 as is (ie. removing the
> unnecessary null check).

Yep.  It really should go the 3.0 kernel along with [PATCH 3/5]
ath6kl: cache firmware.

regards,
dan carpenter