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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix oops in ieee80211_tx_control_port

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On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 09:51 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 6/19/2018 5:39 PM, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> > On pre-emption enabled kernels the following oops was being seen due
> > to missing local_bh_disable/local_bh_enable calls.  mac80211 assumes
> > that pre-emption is disabled in the data path.
> 
> No sure if "assumes" is the right term here. It seems like it is
> required and there is probably a good reason for that. Would be nice to
> know what that reason is.

It's using per-CPU data.

johannes



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