[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: don't check netdev state for debugfs read/write" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mac80211: don't check netdev state for debugfs read/write

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Arik Nemtsov <arik at wizery.com>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:40:51 +0300
Subject: mac80211: don't check netdev state for debugfs read/write

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 <arikx.nemtsov at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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 cafe614ef93d..8e41f0163c5a 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;
--
1.9.1