From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:55611 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752186AbcCSJ5H (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2016 05:57:07 -0400 Message-ID: <1458381422.12902.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20160319_105712_394809_F0DF6BBE) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mac80211: add an option to not disconnect on beacon loss From: Johannes Berg To: Emmanuel Grumbach Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Avraham Stern Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 10:57:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1458222099-30301-2-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> References: <1458222099-30301-1-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> <1458222099-30301-2-git-send-email-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 15:41 +0200, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: >   ifmgd->probe_send_count = 0; > + sdata->u.mgd.flags &= ~IEEE80211_STA_BEACON_LOSS_REPORTED; This is very racy, concurrent RX will corrupt the flags value since this requires a read-modify-write and cannot be done with locking. I can't apply this. johannes