cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering
commit cb150b9d upstream. Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example, the following can happen: 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> link/ether when setting the interface down causes the wext message. To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Add default case in cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call() which bypasses the added wireless_nlevent_flush() (added upstream by commit 6784c7db "cfg80211: change return value of notifier function") - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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