On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:17, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > On 06-12-06 18:52 Michael Buesch wrote: > > > All data in mac->associnfo is protected by mac->associnfo->mutex > > and _not_ mac->lock. > > Are you sure?
Yes I am. > One can find for instance the following function in > ieee80211softmac_assoc.c: This is not the first time we notice that locking is completely broken in softmac. ;) > void > ieee80211softmac_disassoc(struct ieee80211softmac_device *mac) > { > unsigned long flags; > > spin_lock_irqsave(&mac->lock, flags); > if (mac->associnfo.associating) > cancel_delayed_work(&mac->associnfo.timeout); > > netif_carrier_off(mac->dev); > > mac->associnfo.associated = 0; > mac->associnfo.bssvalid = 0; > mac->associnfo.associating = 0; > ieee80211softmac_init_bss(mac); > ieee80211softmac_call_events_locked(mac, > IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_DISASSOCIATED, NULL); > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mac->lock, flags); > } > > Cheers, > > Uli > -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html