From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: synchronize driver rx queues before removing a station
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:47:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457020070.2044.30.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456955174-5623-1-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 23:46 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> From: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
>
> Some devices, like iwlwifi, have RSS queues. This may cause a
> situation where a disassociation is handled in control path and
> results in station removal while there are prior RX frames
> that were still not processed in other queues. When they will
> be processed the station will be gone, and the frames will be
> dropped.
> Add a synchronization interface to avoid that. When driver returns
> from the synchronization mac80211 may remove the station.
>
Applied.
johannes
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2016-03-02 21:46 [PATCH] mac80211: synchronize driver rx queues before removing a station Emmanuel Grumbach
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