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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	pstew@chromium.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: use rcu_read_lock before sta_info_get
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:58:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112251758.41131.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324825752-8186-1-git-send-email-mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>

On Sunday 25 December 2011 16:09:12 Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> @@ -1385,7 +1385,9 @@ void ieee80211_beacon_connection_loss_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  	struct sta_info *sta;
>  
>  	if (ifmgd->associated) {
> +		rcu_read_lock();
>  		sta = sta_info_get(sdata, ifmgd->bssid);
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		if (sta)
>  			sta->beacon_loss_count++;
>  	}

uh, I think it should be:

> +		rcu_read_lock();
>  		sta = sta_info_get(sdata, ifmgd->bssid);
>  		if (sta)
>  			sta->beacon_loss_count++;
> +		rcu_read_unlock();

Since we update a member of the rcu-protected "sta"
reference.

Regards,
	Chr

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-25 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-25 15:09 [RFC] mac80211: use rcu_read_lock before sta_info_get Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
2011-12-25 16:58 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2011-12-26  5:15   ` Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
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2011-12-25 15:06 Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan

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