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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: fix CCMP PN race

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On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 12:09 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> plain text document attachment (009-mac80211-fix-ccmp-races.patch)
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Since we can process multiple packets at the
> same time for different ACs, but the PN is
> allocated from a single counter, we need to
> use an atomic value there. Use atomic64_t to
> make this cheaper on 64-bit platforms, other
> platforms will support this through software
> emulation, see lib/atomic64.c.

This fixes the PN race but is incomplete, will send a new version.

johannes

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