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Re: cfg80211 / libertas: an unusual race

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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:47 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:03 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > > I don't see this happening that way -- how are you even getting 
> > to
> > > __cfg80211_disconnected() if not through _send_deauth()?
> > 
> > See step 7a in the second table.  We got there via 
> > _send_deauth().
> > 
> > But later, step 3b in the second table (I kept the original 
> > numbers, so 3b happens after 7a time-wise!) we got into 
> > WARN_ON().
> 
> Still not making sense to me, since cfg80211_mlme_deauth() never does
> anything after calling you.

Ok, so I can see that this might happen as a result of a call to
__cfg80211_disconnect(), and I think the patch is correct.

johannes

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