diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index deb313105014bf6230cc42da41e45d6d6c4c859e..8f5ee2c2da0457e55abdebe005ac48633660f9df 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -4012,7 +4012,6 @@ struct wiphy_iftype_ext_capab {
  *	by the driver in the .connect() callback. The bit position maps to the
  *	attribute indices defined in &enum nl80211_bss_select_attr.
  *
- * @cookie_counter: unique generic cookie counter, used to identify objects.
  * @nan_supported_bands: bands supported by the device in NAN mode, a
  *	bitmap of &enum nl80211_band values.  For instance, for
  *	NL80211_BAND_2GHZ, bit 0 would be set
@@ -4151,8 +4150,6 @@ struct wiphy {
 
 	u32 bss_select_support;
 
-	u64 cookie_counter;
-
 	u8 nan_supported_bands;
 
 	u32 txq_limit;
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.h b/net/wireless/core.h
index 45fd4e21dbda8687e1914107679c0d7496662741..c61dbba8bf479e5f0b411cda0a07611d93ae5458 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.h
+++ b/net/wireless/core.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct cfg80211_registered_device {
 	/* protected by RTNL only */
 	int num_running_ifaces;
 	int num_running_monitor_ifaces;
+	u64 cookie_counter;
 
 	/* BSSes/scanning */
 	spinlock_t bss_lock;
@@ -133,6 +134,16 @@ cfg80211_rdev_free_wowlan(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
 #endif
 }
 
+static inline u64 cfg80211_assign_cookie(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
+{
+	u64 r = ++rdev->cookie_counter;
+
+	if (WARN_ON(r == 0))
+		r = ++rdev->cookie_counter;
+
+	return r;
+}
+
 extern struct workqueue_struct *cfg80211_wq;
 extern struct list_head cfg80211_rdev_list;
 extern int cfg80211_rdev_list_generation;
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 8f962c79987ae8956ee3cd9868b19ceb90334833..60ce2eb57fbb53e2017daf0f9a93a00e97e85449 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -7803,7 +7803,7 @@ static int nl80211_start_sched_scan(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	 */
 	if (want_multi && rdev->wiphy.max_sched_scan_reqs > 1) {
 		while (!sched_scan_req->reqid)
-			sched_scan_req->reqid = rdev->wiphy.cookie_counter++;
+			sched_scan_req->reqid = cfg80211_assign_cookie(rdev);
 	}
 
 	err = rdev_sched_scan_start(rdev, dev, sched_scan_req);
@@ -11798,7 +11798,7 @@ static int nl80211_nan_add_func(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (!func)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	func->cookie = wdev->wiphy->cookie_counter++;
+	func->cookie = cfg80211_assign_cookie(rdev);
 
 	if (!tb[NL80211_NAN_FUNC_TYPE] ||
 	    nla_get_u8(tb[NL80211_NAN_FUNC_TYPE]) > NL80211_NAN_FUNC_MAX_TYPE) {