From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7] mac80211: fix sta_info locking
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:38:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198395536.6630.13.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071223050844.4e6b8c13@morte>
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> EIP at delay_tsc+0x22/0x50
> [couldn't read the EBX and such, but I guess you won't care]
It'd be good to know actually, along with disassembly.
> So I guessed that locking was lacking somewhere. The following patch fixes
> the issue for me, but I'm not sure at all that it's the right fix. Thanks.
Definitely not. If you look at the code in question, it has nothing at
all that needs locking. It's not accessing any shared structures at all.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-23 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20071223033633.710907923@polimi.it>
2007-12-23 3:39 ` [PATCH 1/7] rc80211-pid: export human-readable target_pf value to debugfs Stefano Brivio
[not found] ` <20071223120124.39050@gmx.net>
[not found] ` <20071223131135.391cc0bb@morte>
2007-12-23 12:19 ` Mattias Nissler
2007-12-23 12:41 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 3:40 ` [PATCH 2/7] rc80211-pid: add kerneldoc for tunable parameters Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 3:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] rc80211-pid: simplify and fix shift_adjust Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 3:43 ` [PATCH 4/7] rc80211-pid: fix sta_info refcounting Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 10:15 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-23 3:44 ` [PATCH 5/7] rc80211-pid: pf_target tuning Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 3:46 ` [PATCH 6/7] rc80211-pid: add MAINTAINERS entry Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 4:08 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] mac80211: fix sta_info locking Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 7:38 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-12-23 10:18 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-12-23 10:36 ` Stefano Brivio
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