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Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: lock the RCU when accessing sta via ieee80211_find_sta()

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On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:07 +0100, coelho@xxxxxx wrote:
> From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx>
> 
> We were calling ieee80211_find_sta() and the sta returned by it
> without locking the RCU, which is required by mac80211.
> 
> Fix this and reorganize slightly the area of the code where the sta is
> used.
> 
> Reported-by: Jonathan DE CESCO <jonathanc@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx>
> ---

Applied and pushed to wl12xx.

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.

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