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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:29:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C976FBD.8010007@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinRQsy3JZ5yr_9xjPhFA3Mez5ewV1V+R1dN3yen@mail.gmail.com>

On 2010-09-20 4:19 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
>> A new aggregation session start can be issued by mac80211, even when the
>> cleanup of the previous session has not completed yet. Since the data structure
>> for the session is not recreated, this could corrupt the block ack window
>> and lock up the aggregation session. Fix this by delaying the new session
>> until the old one has been cleaned up.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
>> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> 
> Any reason to not fix this in mac80211 instead?
mac80211 is already doing the right thing here. The cleanup is ath9k
specific.

- Felix

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-20 11:45 [PATCH 1/5] ath9k: clean up block ack window handling Felix Fietkau
2010-09-20 11:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition Felix Fietkau
2010-09-20 11:45   ` [PATCH 3/5] ath9k: clean up / fix aggregation session flush Felix Fietkau
2010-09-20 11:45     ` [PATCH 4/5] ath9k: move ath_tx_aggr_check() to the rate control module Felix Fietkau
2010-09-20 11:45       ` [PATCH 5/5] ath9k: make the driver specific rate control module optional Felix Fietkau
2010-09-20 14:19   ` [PATCH 2/5] ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-20 14:29     ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2010-09-20 14:35       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-20 17:35   ` [PATCH v2 " Felix Fietkau

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