Re: Suspicious RCU from iwlwifi driver

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Dec 11 2015 - 03:00:46 EST

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Hi Laura,

> Â drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c:1226 suspicious
> rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

> If I revert 9513c5e18a0dc55a1fc9c890715098ba2315830b
> (iwlwifi: mvm: Avoid dereferencing sta if it was already flushed)
> The warning goes away. Known issue?

Thanks for the report - I at least hadn't seen this (or a fix for it)
yet, we'll take a look.

johannes
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