Network devices can allocate reasources and private memory using
netdev_ops->ndo_init().  However, the release of these resources
can occur in one of two different places.

Either netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() or netdev->destructor().

The decision of which operation frees the resources depends upon
whether it is necessary for all netdev refs to be released before it
is safe to perform the freeing.

netdev_ops->ndo_uninit() presumably can occur right after the
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier completes and the unicast and multicast
address lists are flushed.

netdev->destructor(), on the other hand, does not run until the
netdev references all go away.

Further complicating the situation is that netdev->destructor()
almost universally does also a free_netdev().

This creates a problem for the logic in register_netdevice().
Because all callers of register_netdevice() manage the freeing
of the netdev, and invoke free_netdev(dev) if register_netdevice()
fails.

If netdev_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, but something else fails inside
of register_netdevice(), it does call ndo_ops->ndo_uninit().  But
it is not able to invoke netdev->destructor().

This is because netdev->destructor() will do a free_netdev() and
then the caller of register_netdevice() will do the same.

However, this means that the resources that would normally be released
by netdev->destructor() will not be.

Over the years drivers have added local hacks to deal with this, by
invoking their destructor parts by hand when register_netdevice()
fails.

Many drivers do not try to deal with this, and instead we have leaks.

Let's close this hole by formalizing the distinction between what
private things need to be freed up by netdev->destructor() and whether
the driver needs unregister_netdevice() to perform the free_netdev().

netdev->priv_destructor() performs all actions to free up the private
resources that used to be freed by netdev->destructor(), except for
free_netdev().

netdev->needs_free_netdev is a boolean that indicates whether
free_netdev() should be done at the end of unregister_netdevice().

Now, register_netdevice() can sanely release all resources after
ndo_ops->ndo_init() succeeds, by invoking both ndo_ops->ndo_uninit()
and netdev->priv_destructor().

And at the end of unregister_netdevice(), we invoke
netdev->priv_destructor() and optionally call free_netdev().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Johannes Berg says:

====================
Another set of patches for -next:
 * API support for concurrent scheduled scan requests
 * API changes for roaming reporting
 * BSS max idle support in mac80211
 * API changes for TX status reporting in mac80211
 * API changes for RX rate reporting in mac80211
 * rewrite monitor logic to prepare for BPF filters
 * bugfix for rare devices without 2.4 GHz support
 * a bugfix for recent DFS changes
 * some further cleanups

The API changes are actually at a nice time, since it's
typically quiet just before the merge window, and trees
can be synchronized easily during it.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In preparation for adding support for HE rates, clean up
the driver report encoding for rate/bandwidth reporting
on RX frames.

Much of this patch was done with the following spatch:

@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & (RX_FLAG_HT | RX_FLAG_VHT)
+status->enc_flags & (RX_ENC_FLAG_HT | RX_ENC_FLAG_VHT)

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_SHORTPRE
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORTPRE
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_SHORTPRE
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORTPRE

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_HT
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_HT
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_HT

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_40MHZ
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_40MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_40MHZ
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_40MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_SHORT_GI
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORT_GI
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_SHORT_GI
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORT_GI

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_HT_GF
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_HT_GF
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT_GF
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_HT_GF

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_VHT
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_VHT
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_VHT
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_VHT

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_STBC_MASK
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_MASK
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_STBC_MASK
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_MASK

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_LDPC
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_LDPC
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_LDPC
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_LDPC

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_10MHZ
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_10MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_10MHZ
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_10MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->flag op RX_FLAG_5MHZ
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_5MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->flag & RX_FLAG_5MHZ
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_5MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->vht_flag op RX_VHT_FLAG_80MHZ
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_80MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->vht_flag & RX_VHT_FLAG_80MHZ
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_80MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->vht_flag op RX_VHT_FLAG_160MHZ
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_160MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->vht_flag & RX_VHT_FLAG_160MHZ
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_160MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status->vht_flag op RX_VHT_FLAG_BF
+status->enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_BF
@@
expression status;
@@
-status->vht_flag & RX_VHT_FLAG_BF
+status->enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_BF

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status, STBC;
@@
-status->flag op STBC << RX_FLAG_STBC_SHIFT
+status->enc_flags op STBC << RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_SHIFT

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_SHORTPRE
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORTPRE
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_SHORTPRE
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORTPRE

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_HT
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_HT
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_HT
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_HT

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_40MHZ
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_40MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_40MHZ
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_40MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_SHORT_GI
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORT_GI
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_SHORT_GI
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_SHORT_GI

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_HT_GF
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_HT_GF
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_HT_GF
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_HT_GF

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_VHT
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_VHT
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_VHT
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_VHT

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_STBC_MASK
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_MASK
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_STBC_MASK
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_MASK

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_LDPC
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_LDPC
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_LDPC
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_LDPC

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_10MHZ
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_10MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_10MHZ
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_10MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.flag op RX_FLAG_5MHZ
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_5MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.flag & RX_FLAG_5MHZ
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_5MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.vht_flag op RX_VHT_FLAG_80MHZ
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_80MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.vht_flag & RX_VHT_FLAG_80MHZ
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_80MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.vht_flag op RX_VHT_FLAG_160MHZ
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_160MHZ
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.vht_flag & RX_VHT_FLAG_160MHZ
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_160MHZ

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status;
@@
-status.vht_flag op RX_VHT_FLAG_BF
+status.enc_flags op RX_ENC_FLAG_BF
@@
expression status;
@@
-status.vht_flag & RX_VHT_FLAG_BF
+status.enc_flags & RX_ENC_FLAG_BF

@@
assignment operator op;
expression status, STBC;
@@
-status.flag op STBC << RX_FLAG_STBC_SHIFT
+status.enc_flags op STBC << RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_SHIFT

@@
@@
-RX_FLAG_STBC_SHIFT
+RX_ENC_FLAG_STBC_SHIFT

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Allocate buffer on HEAP instead of STACK for a local variable
that is to be sent using usb_control_msg().

Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

trivial fix to spelling mistake in dbg_dbg message

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

Instead passing both flags, which can be NULL, and vif_params,
which are never NULL, move the flags into the vif_params and
use BIT(0), which is invalid from userspace, to indicate that
the flags were changed.

While updating all drivers, fix a small bug in wil6210 where
it was setting the flags to 0 instead of leaving them unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Instead of using a private copy of struct net_device_stats in
struct orinoco_private, use stats from struct net_device. Also remove
the now unnecessary .ndo_get_stats function.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers-next patches for 4.11

The most notable change here is the inclusion of airtime fairness
scheduling to ath9k. It prevents slow clients from hogging all the
airtime and unfairly slowing down faster clients.

Otherwise smaller changes and cleanup.

Major changes:

ath9k

* cleanup eeprom endian handling
* add airtime fairness scheduling

ath10k

* fix issues for new QCA9377 firmware version
* support dev_coredump() for firmware crash dump
* enable channel 169 on 5 GHz band
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Eric Biggers pointed out that the orinoco driver pointed scatterlists
at the stack.

Fix it by switching from ahash to shash.  The result should be
simpler, faster, and more correct.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9 only
Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>