On 2017-02-14 14:32, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > 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. Maybe you should get rid of the skbdesc->sta assignment in patch 2, because this is somewhat confusing.
- Felix
