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Re: [PATCH 2/5] ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A new aggregation session start can be issued by mac80211, even when the
> cleanup of the previous session has not completed yet. Since the data structure
> for the session is not recreated, this could corrupt the block ack window
> and lock up the aggregation session. Fix this by delaying the new session
> until the old one has been cleaned up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Any reason to not fix this in mac80211 instead?

  Luis
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