On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 17:26 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:

> mac80211: introduce plink lock for plink fields
> 
> The mesh plink code uses sta->lock to serialize access to the
> plink state fields between the peer link state machine and the
> peer link timer.  Some paths (e.g. those involving
> mps_qos_null_tx()) unfortunately hold this spinlock across
> frame tx, which is soon to be disallowed.  Add a new spinlock
> just for plink access.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com>

Thank you!

I've applied both this and the rate control locking patch.

We may later want to pick that up for stable perhaps, but let's let it
bake a little longer, it's pretty big.

johannes

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