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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ath10k@lists.infradead.org" <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ath10k: Add BUG_ON if we over-write peer-map pointer.
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:04:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FE7FEA.5090708@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQkL5OM-QLVVe0RHEOoN-Vj4a0+U9EfaUf=2n+PO3mPDyQ@mail.gmail.com>



On 03/31/2016 11:09 PM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 31 March 2016 at 22:59,  <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> Not sure this can happen, but seems like a reasonable sanity
>> check.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
>> index 94c27f6..172b1d6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
>> @@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ void ath10k_peer_map_event(struct ath10k_htt *htt,
>>          ath10k_warn(ar, /*ATH10K_DBG_HTT,*/ "htt peer map vdev %d peer %pM id %d\n",
>>                     ev->vdev_id, ev->addr, ev->peer_id);
>>
>> +       BUG_ON(ar->peer_map[ev->peer_id] && (ar->peer_map[ev->peer_id] != peer));
>
> Does this really need to be a BUG_ON?

It means we have memory or logic corruption, or maybe we are out of sync with the
firmware, so I think it should be very visible, at least for a while.  I haven't
hit it, so not sure it can happen anyway....

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-01 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-31 20:59 [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: Ensure txrx-compl-task is stopped when cleaning htt-tx greearb
2016-03-31 20:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] ath10k: Ensure peer_map references are cleaned up greearb
2016-04-01  6:18   ` Michal Kazior
2016-03-31 20:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath10k: Add BUG_ON if we over-write peer-map pointer greearb
2016-04-01  6:09   ` Michal Kazior
2016-04-01 14:04     ` Ben Greear [this message]
2016-04-01  6:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: Ensure txrx-compl-task is stopped when cleaning htt-tx Michal Kazior
2016-04-01 20:36   ` Ben Greear

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