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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix sequence number assignment for PS response frames

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On 2016-09-12 11:58, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 18:00 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> When using intermediate queues, sequence number allocation is
>> deferred
>> until dequeue. This doesn't work for PS response frames, which bypass
>> those queues.
>> 
> Applied.
> 
> This worries me a bit though - there's nothing, afaict, that guarantees
> that dequeue and real TX are not concurrent, and that would corrupt a
> number of things, no?
Hm, I guess I didn't think of that. I guess this potential issue will go
away once we get Toke's tx handler reorder patch fixed, rebased and
integrated.

- Felix



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