From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "DE CESCO, Jonathan" <jonathanc@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: lock the RCU when accessing sta via ieee80211_find_sta()
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:33:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294918425.2064.21.camel@pimenta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294769241-3118-1-git-send-email-coelho@ti.com>
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:07 +0100, coelho@ti.com wrote:
> From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
>
> We were calling ieee80211_find_sta() and the sta returned by it
> without locking the RCU, which is required by mac80211.
>
> Fix this and reorganize slightly the area of the code where the sta is
> used.
>
> Reported-by: Jonathan DE CESCO <jonathanc@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
> ---
Applied and pushed to wl12xx.
--
Cheers,
Luca.
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2011-01-11 18:07 [PATCH] wl12xx: lock the RCU when accessing sta via ieee80211_find_sta() coelho
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