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Re: [PATCH wireless-2.6] mac80211: delete AddBA response timer

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On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 21:40 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We never delete the addBA response timer, which
> is typically fine, but if the station it belongs
> to is deleted very quickly after starting the BA
> session, before the peer had a chance to reply,
> the timer may fire after the station struct has
> been freed already. Therefore, we need to delete
> the timer in a suitable spot -- best when the
> session is being stopped (which will happen even
> then) in which case the delete will be a no-op
> most of the time.
> 
> I've reproduced the scenario and tested the fix.

Ok, can you add:

This fixes the crash reported at
http://mid.gmane.org/4CAB6F96.6090701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

to the changelog?

johannes

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