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Re: Suspicious RCU usage in mac80211

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On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:54:29AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 03:47 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >
> >IIUC, Paul suggested that you should use rcu_dereference_check() here
> >instead as the protected one is not safe in this context.
> 
> This patch also fails to fix the problem. Did I do what Paul suggested?

That is indeed what I suggested!

What locks does lockdep say are held?

							Thanx, Paul

> Index: wireless-testing-new/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing-new.orig/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
> +++ wireless-testing-new/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
> @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ void ieee80211_assign_tid_tx(struct sta_
>  static inline struct tid_ampdu_tx *
>  rcu_dereference_protected_tid_tx(struct sta_info *sta, int tid)
>  {
> -       return rcu_dereference_protected(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid],
> +       return rcu_dereference_check(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_tx[tid],
>                                          lockdep_is_held(&sta->lock) ||
>                                          lockdep_is_held(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx));
>  }
> 

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