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Re: [PATCH 4/5] ath6kl: Fix possible race in accessing bounce buffer

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On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:08:50AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 06:52 PM, Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar wrote:
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Thiagarajan, Vasanthakumar
> > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:18 PM
> > To: Valo, Kalle
> > Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [PATCH 4/5] ath6kl: Fix possible race in accessing bounce buffer
> > 
> > There is only one bounce buffer (ar_sdio->dma_buffer) which is used
> > for both read and write without any protection. Fix this race by
> > allocating bounce buffer every time when it is needed.
> > 
> > As I have never seen any race in bounce buffer practically during my testing,
> > this patch can be dropped instead of making the code complex for no reason.
> 
> Heh, we got lucky again. I had applied the patches but forgot to push
> them to github. So I was able to drop patches 4 and 5.

Thanks a lot.

Vasanth
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