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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

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);