From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marty Faltesek <mfaltesek@google.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Subject: Re: mac80211: When adding a new station, notify driver before adding to hash
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:15:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440432904.3735.21.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOiWkA95hm3LWwNt3EP1-OESjx775BC8YAznwy48XorSERuiew@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20150824_181245_283521_DCA76F0C)
On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 12:12 -0400, Marty Faltesek wrote:
> Yes, that would address the issue in a simple way. Would this be
> applicable to any of the other ops vectors? I will create a patch.
>
Possible, we'll have to check which ones are possible to get at from
the RX (and possibly TX?) paths.
Another option could be to prevent looking up the station until it's
actually uploaded? But that might also cause the other races to happen
again, I suppose.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-24 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-20 21:39 mac80211: When adding a new station, notify driver before adding to hash Marty Faltesek
2015-08-21 5:04 ` Michal Kazior
2015-08-21 7:57 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-21 7:58 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-21 17:00 ` Marty Faltesek
2015-08-24 12:38 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-24 16:12 ` Marty Faltesek
2015-08-24 16:15 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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