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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Warn once for delayed scan completion

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On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 15:12 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Those commits say they *fix* the race though, so in case I was wrong you
> > should report the sequence of events so we can look at fixing it
> > properly?
> 
> The commits fix both the issues (use-after-free, new scan) correctly,
> so I don't see a race ? If the driver is slow in notifying scan completion
> and the interface is removed in the meantime, this warning is hit.

But the driver can/should just do it when the interface is removed from
it? Otherwise it has no valid way to run/continue the scan anyway?

johannes

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