On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > There is a race on access to last_request and its alpha2 > through reg_is_valid_request() and us possibly processing > first another regulatory request on another CPU. We avoid > this improbably race by locking with the cfg80211_mutex as > we should have done in the first place. While at it add > the assert on locking on reg_is_valid_request(). > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> What is the effect of this race? What justifies this for 2.6.30 and/or stable? It is getting late in the cycle for 2.6.30... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
