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wifi: remove check for existing device in wifi_wext_is_wifi()

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Thomas Haller 2016-12-10 16:30:42 +01:00
parent 4bdee37771
commit da7b8dd850
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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src/platform/wifi/wifi-utils-wext.c
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@ -662,8 +662,15 @@ wifi_wext_is_wifi (const char *iface)
struct iwreq iwr;
gboolean is_wifi = FALSE;
if (!nmp_utils_device_exists (iface))
return FALSE;
/* performing an ioctl on a non-existing name may cause the automatic
* loading of kernel modules, which should be avoided.
*
* Usually, we should thus make sure that an inteface with this name
* exists.
*
* Note that wifi_wext_is_wifi() has only one caller which just verified
* that an interface with this name exists.
*/
fd = socket (PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM | SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0);
if (fd >= 0) {