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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@ispras.ru>,
	libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ldv-project@linuxtesting.org, vaishali.thakkar@oracle.com
Subject: Re: libertas: Add spinlock to avoid race condition
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:47:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160629154712.95563613CE@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465990443-19738-1-git-send-email-andrianov@ispras.ru>

Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@ispras.ru> wrote:
> lbs_mac_event_disconnected may free priv->currenttxskb
> while lbs_hard_start_xmit accesses to it.
> The patch adds a spinlock for mutual exclusion.
> 
> Tested on OLPC XO-1 (usb8388) and XO-1.5 (sd8686) with v4.7-rc3.
> 
> Confirmed that lbs_mac_event_disconnected is being called on the
> station when hostapd on access point is given SIGHUP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel <andrianov@ispras.ru>
> Tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
> Acked-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@oracle.com>

Thanks, 1 patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:

f52b041aed77 libertas: Add spinlock to avoid race condition

-- 
Sent by pwcli
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9178477/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-29 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-15 11:34 [PATCH] libertas: Add spinlock to avoid race condition Pavel Andrianov
2016-06-15 13:01 ` Vaishali Thakkar
2016-06-29 15:47 ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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