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-rw-r--r--include/net/iw_handler.h6
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/core.c2
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c3
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/iw_handler.h b/include/net/iw_handler.h
index 8f81bbbc38fc..e0f4109e64c6 100644
--- a/include/net/iw_handler.h
+++ b/include/net/iw_handler.h
@@ -439,6 +439,12 @@ int dev_get_wireless_info(char *buffer, char **start, off_t offset, int length);
/* Send a single event to user space */
void wireless_send_event(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int cmd,
union iwreq_data *wrqu, const char *extra);
+#ifdef CONFIG_WEXT_CORE
+/* flush all previous wext events - if work is done from netdev notifiers */
+void wireless_nlevent_flush(void);
+#else
+static inline void wireless_nlevent_flush(void) {}
+#endif
/* We may need a function to send a stream of events to user space.
* More on that later... */
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index b0915515640e..8f0bac7e03c4 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -1147,6 +1147,8 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
+ wireless_nlevent_flush();
+
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 87dd619fb2e9..b50ee5d622e1 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static const int compat_event_type_size[] = {
/* IW event code */
-static void wireless_nlevent_flush(void)
+void wireless_nlevent_flush(void)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct net *net;
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ static void wireless_nlevent_flush(void)
GFP_KERNEL);
}
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wireless_nlevent_flush);
static int wext_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long state, void *ptr)