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Re: [PATCH 3.4] iwlwifi: fix a potential race in receive buffer allocation

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>
> This patch make no sense. Nothing stops compiler or CPU to write
> ->page into memory before ->page_dma .
>

I thought that too,but  the call to dma_map... is a call to functon.
Shouldn't force the compiler the make things in order. Or maybe the
assignment to rxb->page_dma can be reordered... I am not really sure.
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