On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 02:10:01PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2017-02-14 13:46, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > Add station field to skb_frame_desc and assign it according to status > > WCID. This field will be used in the future. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> > I see some potential for race conditions in this approach. You store the > sta pointer in struct skb_frame_desc, but I don't see anything that > guarantees that the sta will be around for as long as the tx frame is held. > I think a better approach would be to not store the sta pointer in > skb_frame_desc at all. > Instead, add a driver callback to look up the sta by wcid, and use rcu > properly there. Make sure you only hold the sta pointer obtained from > that call within a RCU read locked section.
On patch 7, where ->sta start to be used, I added RCU protection. Stanislaw
