wireless: make regdom passing semantics simpler

The regdom struct is given to the core, so it might as well
free it in error conditions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt
index a96989a8ff35..357d4ba4f135 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ struct ieee80211_regdomain mydriver_jp_regdom = {
 
 Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered:
 
-        int r;
         struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd;
         int size_of_regd;
         int num_rules = mydriver_jp_regdom.n_reg_rules;
@@ -178,17 +177,11 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered:
 
         rd = kzalloc(size_of_regd, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!rd)
-        return -ENOMEM;
+                return -ENOMEM;
 
         memcpy(rd, &mydriver_jp_regdom, sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain));
 
-        for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++) {
+        for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++)
                 memcpy(&rd->reg_rules[i], &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i],
                         sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule));
-        }
-        r = regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, NULL, rd);
-        if (r) {
-                kfree(rd);
-                return r;
-        }
-
+        return regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, NULL, rd);
diff --git a/include/net/wireless.h b/include/net/wireless.h
index 061fe5017e5c..6e3ea0159045 100644
--- a/include/net/wireless.h
+++ b/include/net/wireless.h
@@ -358,8 +358,7 @@ ieee80211_get_channel(struct wiphy *wiphy, int freq)
  * for a regulatory domain structure for the respective country. If
  * a regulatory domain is build and passed you should set the alpha2
  * if possible, otherwise set it to the special value of "99" which tells
- * the wireless core it is unknown. If you pass a built regulatory domain
- * and we return non zero you are in charge of kfree()'ing the structure.
+ * the wireless core it is unknown.
  *
  * Returns -EALREADY if *a regulatory domain* has already been set. Note that
  * this could be by another driver. It is safe for drivers to continue if
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 9a16e9e6c5ca..f82cc9aa6908 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -1935,12 +1935,9 @@ static int nl80211_set_reg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
         mutex_lock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
         r = set_regdom(rd);
         mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
-        if (r)
-                goto bad_reg;
-
         return r;
 
-bad_reg:
+ bad_reg:
         kfree(rd);
         return -EINVAL;
 }
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 00c326b66c03..038f8f133c54 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -605,7 +605,6 @@ int __regulatory_hint(struct wiphy *wiphy, enum reg_set_by set_by,
         return r;
 }
 
-/* If rd is not NULL and if this call fails the caller must free it */
 int regulatory_hint(struct wiphy *wiphy, const char *alpha2,
         struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
 {
@@ -690,6 +689,7 @@ void print_regdomain_info(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
         print_rd_rules(rd);
 }
 
+/* Takes ownership of rd only if it doesn't fail */
 static int __set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
 {
         /* Some basic sanity checks first */
@@ -750,16 +750,17 @@ static int __set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
 
 /* Use this call to set the current regulatory domain. Conflicts with
  * multiple drivers can be ironed out later. Caller must've already
- * kmalloc'd the rd structure. If this calls fails you should kfree()
- * the passed rd. Caller must hold cfg80211_drv_mutex */
+ * kmalloc'd the rd structure. Caller must hold cfg80211_drv_mutex */
 int set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
 {
         int r;
 
         /* Note that this doesn't update the wiphys, this is done below */
         r = __set_regdom(rd);
-        if (r)
+        if (r) {
+                kfree(rd);
                 return r;
+        }
 
         /* This would make this whole thing pointless */
         BUG_ON(rd != cfg80211_regdomain);