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Re: [PATCH 2.6.37 v2 1/2] ath9k: fix beacon resource related race condition

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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:42:18PM +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> The beacon tasklet is accesssing the bslot info for beacon generation.
> Meanwhile the same slot can be freed on interface deletion.
> Current the remove_interface disables the beacon alert after freeing the slot.
> This may leads to null pointer access.
> 
> This patch disables SWBA and kills the beacon tasklet to prevent access
> to the slot to be freed. After releasing the slot, swba will be enabled again
> upon the availablity of beaconing interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
John,

I respin the patches on 2.6.37-rc5-wl and send it again. Sorry for inconvenience.

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Rajkumar
 
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