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Re: rx racing against removing interfaces?

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On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:59 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:

> Oh, you mean virtual interfaces.. yeah, there's probably a race. I don't
> know the locking there.

Yes, I mean virtual interfaces, when the thing is in progress while we
iterate through.

> But my comment about the non-irqsafe-variants-should-be-hidden still applies :)

I'll reread it ;)

But I'm not sure I fully agree. If the driver calls __ieee80211_rx in
softirq context that should be good without requiring to reschedule in
mac80211.

johannes

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