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Johannes Berg committed c8aa22db011
mac80211: close AP_VLAN interfaces before unregistering all Since Eric's commit efe117ab8 ("Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces") there's a bug in mac80211 when it unregisters with AP_VLAN interfaces up. If the AP_VLAN interface was registered after the AP it belongs to (which is the typical case) and then we get into this code path, unregister_netdevice_many() will crash because it isn't prepared to deal with interfaces being closed in the middle of it. Exactly this happens though, because we iterate the list, find the AP master this AP_VLAN belongs to and dev_close() the dependent VLANs. After this, unregister_netdevice_many() won't pick up the fact that the AP_VLAN is already down and will do it again, causing a crash. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [2.6.33+] Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>