On Monday 04 August 2008 00:58:36 Larry Finger wrote: > Experience with the rtl8187 driver has shown that mac80211 can make > calls to the config callback routine in rapid succession. This patch > creates a mutex that protects the private data in several of the routines > called by mac80211. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > John, > > I think this is 2.6.27 material. It is a definite bug, but I cannot point > to a single bug report implicating this lack of protection as the cause. > Your call. > > Larry Well the reason why there isn't any bug report about it is maybe because unlike most other devices we don't program one single setting per time, but always a "group of similar ones" at once so the device should always be in a sane state in theory. So as long as mac80211 provides at least some kind of protection against it's own concurrency, we are in save waters even without any fancy kind of locking. Regards, Chr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
