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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: Suspicious RCU from iwlwifi driver
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:00:34 +0100
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Hi Laura,

> =C2=A0 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c:1226 suspicious
> rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

> If I revert 9513c5e18a0dc55a1fc9c890715098ba2315830b
> (iwlwifi: mvm: Avoid dereferencing sta if it was already flushed)
> The warning goes away. Known issue?

Thanks for the report - I at least hadn't seen this (or a fix for it)
yet, we'll take a look.

johannes