There is a new dummy netdev allocator, use it instead of
alloc_netdev()/init_dummy_netdev combination.

Using alloc_netdev() with init_dummy_netdev might cause some memory
corruption at the driver removal side.

Fixes: 61cdb09ff760 ("wifi: qtnfmac: allocate dummy net_device dynamically")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/pcie.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/pcie.c
index f8f55db2f454..f66eb43094d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pcie/pcie.c
@@ -372,8 +372,7 @@ static int qtnf_pcie_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	bus->mux_dev = alloc_netdev(0, "dummy", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
-				    init_dummy_netdev);
+	bus->mux_dev = alloc_netdev_dummy(0);
 	if (!bus->mux_dev) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error;
-- 
2.43.0

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> writes:

> There is a new dummy netdev allocator, use it instead of
> alloc_netdev()/init_dummy_netdev combination.
>
> Using alloc_netdev() with init_dummy_netdev might cause some memory
> corruption at the driver removal side.
>
> Fixes: 61cdb09ff760 ("wifi: qtnfmac: allocate dummy net_device dynamically")
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>

I assume this goes via net-next:

Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>

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