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| author |   Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2013-07-02 08:31:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2013-07-02 08:31:48 +0200 |
| commit | 5f0e5afa0de4522abb3ea7d1369039b94e740ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a5be3db9ecfed8ef2150c6146f6d1e0d658ac8b /net/mac80211/rate.c | |
| parent | drbd: Allow online change of al-stripes and al-stripe-size (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 3.10-rc7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-5f0e5afa0de4522abb3ea7d1369039b94e740ec5.tar.xz linux-dev-5f0e5afa0de4522abb3ea7d1369039b94e740ec5.zip | |
Merge tag 'v3.10-rc7' into for-3.11/drivers
Linux 3.10-rc7
Pull this in early to avoid doing it with the bcache merge,
since there are a number of changes to bcache between my old
base (3.10-rc1) and the new pull request.
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/rate.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/rate.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rate.c b/net/mac80211/rate.c index 0d51877efdb7..d3f414fe67e0 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/rate.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rate.c @@ -688,8 +688,15 @@ int rate_control_set_rates(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta, struct ieee80211_sta_rates *rates) { - struct ieee80211_sta_rates *old = rcu_dereference(pubsta->rates); + struct ieee80211_sta_rates *old; + /* + * mac80211 guarantees that this function will not be called + * concurrently, so the following RCU access is safe, even without + * extra locking. This can not be checked easily, so we just set + * the condition to true. + */ + old = rcu_dereference_protected(pubsta->rates, true); rcu_assign_pointer(pubsta->rates, rates); if (old) kfree_rcu(old, rcu_head); |