On 2010-09-21 10:19 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 12:32 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2010-09-21 9:28 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 20:00 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Could we just poke a pointer to the STA into the ath_buf structure?
>>>
>>>> No, that doesn't work because of RCU.
>>>
>>> Well, it could work, if you walk all the structures upon sta_notify and
>>> remove now stale pointers (or just drop the frames or something).
>> I think it would be much better to just add the helper function that
>> checks the RA on STA lookup. Keeps things simple, especially since
>> nothing else in the tx path needs the vif.
> 
> How about this.  Seems to do the trick on my system:
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c 
> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> index 85a7323..09815a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> @@ -328,8 +328,7 @@ static void ath_tx_complete_aggr(struct ath_softc *sc, 
> struct ath_txq *txq,
> 
>          rcu_read_lock();
> 
> -       /* XXX: use ieee80211_find_sta! */
> -       sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw(hw, hdr->addr1);
> +       sta = tx_info->control.sta;
As I mentioned in another email: at the time we get the tx status
report, we have to consider the sta pointer stale. It may or may not
still be valid.

- Felix
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