On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-04-15 21:00, Dave Taht wrote:
>> Thx felix!
>>
>> Given that there seems to be a potential race in the code
>> review I did at:
>>
>> http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/442#note-22
>>
>> another thought is to make the increment and decrement of
>>
>> txq->pending_frame atomic, or to do a flush before the unlock
> I'm not convinced that there's a race that involves txq->pending_frames.
> There is no need to make the increment/decrement atomic, because that
> variable is already protected by the txq lock.

It and "stopped" are briefly unprotected along that code path.

>
>> What tree is this patch against?
> mac80211 from OpenWrt trunk.

Thx, will try your patch today.

> - Felix



-- 
Dave Täht

NSFW: 
https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article
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