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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix AP/VLAN PS buffer race

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When an AP interface is removed without the
> AP/VLAN interfaces having been removed before
> already, the AP-VLAN interface might still
> have sleeping stations and buffer multicast
> frames which will happen on the AP interface.
> Thus, we need to remove AP/VLAN interfaces
> before purging buffered broadcast frames.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Curious, what was happening with the inverse?

  Luis
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