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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: unregister spectral before mac
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:22:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9205567.prhmu1LLGe@prime> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqabmlc2.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

On Thursday 14 August 2014 13:12:13 Kalle Valo wrote:
> Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de> writes:
> > If spectral is unregistered after mac80211, the relayfs file has already
> > been removed recursively by mac/cfg80211, and spectral tries to remove
> > the file once more, thus leading to double free problems. Better clean
> > up spectral before to avoid that problem.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
> 
> Thanks for checking this. But I'm just wondering why even bother to call
> relay_close() in the first place if mac80211 recursively removes
> everything anyway? We don't remove any of the debugfs files anyway.

We need to relay_close() in any case because this function also causes to 
clean up internal buffers of relayfs.

An alternative to this patch could be to instead having 
remove_buf_file_handler() call debugfs_remove() just do nothing and relay on 
the upper layers to (recursively) remove that file - then, the relayfs stuff 
still can get cleaned up. But that's also not very elegant either. If you 
prefer that I can prepare a patch though ....

Cheers,
     Simon

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-14 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-12 15:12 [PATCH] ath10k: unregister spectral before mac Simon Wunderlich
2014-08-14 10:12 ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-14 12:22   ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2014-08-14 12:41     ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-14 13:16 ` Kalle Valo

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