From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Calvin Owens Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:56:34 -0500 Subject: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] mac80211: ath9k: Use RCU protection calling ieee80211_get_tx_rates In-Reply-To: <1370980523.8356.70.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> References: <20130609225120.GA2789@gmail.com> <20130610042959.GA1902@gmail.com> <1370950926.8356.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> <20130611171304.GA2189@gmail.com> <1370980523.8356.70.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Message-ID: <20130612075634.GA1649@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Tuesday 06/11 at 21:55 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Now the subject should no longer say "mac80211:" :) > > However... given that ieee80211_get_tx_rates() actually *copies* the > rates into the parameter, I guess it should do the rcu_read_lock() > internally. I guess I wasn't paying attention previously. Felix? I thought about that, but it seemed too simple, so I assumed I was missing something. ;) I'll send a patch per above. That makes the header file update unnecessary too. > johannes