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Re: [PATCH 3.9] mac80211: always synchronize_net() during station removal

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On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 11:22 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 23:19 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> If there are keys left during station removal, then a
> >> synchronize_net() will be done (for each key, I have a
> >> patch to address this for 3.10), otherwise it won't be
> >> done at all which causes issues because the station
> >> could be used for TX while it's being removed from the
> >> driver -- that might confuse the driver.
> >>
> >> Fix this by always doing synchronize_net() if no key
> >> was present any more.
> >
> > Applied.
> 
> This applies to v3.8 as well, do you want it there too?

Dunno, I don't know of a bug that was triggered by this, I only know our
new driver might trigger bugs without this.

johannes

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