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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix and simplify mesh locking

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On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 16:05 -0700, Javier Cardona wrote:

> I'm seeing this after trying your patch, probably because the
> allocations mesh_table_alloc() can block.  In the past I had tried to
> allocate the table before entering the critical section.  If that is
> not possible for the race condition you mention,  then I guess we'll
> have to make those allocations GFP_ATOMIC?

Err, now I'm confused, how could the code have done non-atomic
allocations while under rcu_read_lock()? I guess there was just no
verification there?

johannes

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