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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Purge A-MPDU TX queues before station destructions

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>
> When a station leaves suddenly while ampdu traffic to that station is still
> running, there is a possibility that the ampdu pending queues are not freed due
> to a race condition leading to memory leaks. In '__sta_info_destroy' when we
> attempt to destroy the ampdu sessions in 'ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions',
> the driver calls 'ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe' to delete the ampdu
> structures (tid_tx) and splice the pending queues and this job gets queued in
> sdata workqueue. However, the sta entry can get destroyed before the above work
> gets scheduled and hence the race.
>
> Purging the queues and freeing the tid_tx to avoid the leak. The better solution
> would be to fix the race, but that can be taken up in a separate patch.
>

Did you actually run into that race, or you can see the bug from code
inspection ?
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