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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@Atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, steven@uplinklabs.net,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ath9k: fix oops on trying to hold the wrong spinlock
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:54:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016215407.GA17091@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081016111255.GA5899@tesla>

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:12:55AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This fixes on oops when you get try to send a BA to an 11n AP.
> The oops occurred because we were trying to aquire an incorrect
> spinlock.
> 
> We were trying to hold the wrong spinlock due to a typo
> on IEEE80211_BAR_CTL_TID_S's definition. We use this to
> compute the tid number and then hold this this tid number's
> spinlock.
> 
> Tested-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> 
> I don't see this queue'd yet for 2.6.27.2

Is it in Linus's tree?  If so, do you have a git commit id?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-16 11:12 [PATCH] ath9k: fix oops on trying to hold the wrong spinlock Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-16 21:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-10-16 23:12   ` [stable] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-16 23:28     ` Greg KH
2008-10-16 23:41       ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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