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Re: [stable] [PATCH] ath9k: fix oops on trying to hold the wrong spinlock

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:12:55AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This fixes on oops when you get try to send a BA to an 11n AP.
> The oops occurred because we were trying to aquire an incorrect
> spinlock.
> 
> We were trying to hold the wrong spinlock due to a typo
> on IEEE80211_BAR_CTL_TID_S's definition. We use this to
> compute the tid number and then hold this this tid number's
> spinlock.
> 
> Tested-by: Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> I don't see this queue'd yet for 2.6.27.2

Is it in Linus's tree?  If so, do you have a git commit id?

thanks,

greg k-h
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