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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix crash with single-queue drivers

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On 07/04/2012 05:53 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Larry (and some others I think) reported that with
single-queue drivers mac80211 crashes when waking
the queues. This happens because we allocate just
a single queue for each virtual interface in case
the driver doesn't have at least 4 queues, but the
code stopping/waking the virtual interface queues
wasn't taking this into account.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  net/mac80211/util.c |   12 ++++++++++--
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch fixes the problem for drivers that always report a single queue such as at76c503-usb. There is still a problem for b43 with open-source firmware where the number of queues changes from 4 to 1. As that only affects b43, do you agree that the problem should be fixed there?

Larry
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