From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753302Ab3BCNPt (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 08:15:49 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33393 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752382Ab3BCNPr (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 08:15:47 -0500 Message-ID: <1359897327.29976.4.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [ 38/89] ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race From: Ben Hutchings To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau , "John W. Linville" Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:15:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20130201130210.260645970@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130201130207.444989281@linuxfoundation.org> <20130201130210.260645970@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-AlS1E3hS5sVsh486Qkjf" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 151.216.67.5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-AlS1E3hS5sVsh486Qkjf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 14:07 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me kno= w. >=20 > ------------------ >=20 > From: Felix Fietkau >=20 > commit 7fc00a3054b70b1794c2d64db703eb467ad0365c upstream. >=20 > Ensure that the rx tasklet is no longer running when entering the reset p= ath. > Also remove the distinction between flush and no-flush frame processing. > If a frame has been received and ACKed by the hardware, the stack needs t= o see > it, so that the BA receive window does not go out of sync. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [...] Are this and the following 3 fixes required for earlier kernel versions )3.0, 3.2, 3.4)? If so, could you provide backports? Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstei= n --=-AlS1E3hS5sVsh486Qkjf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAUQ5i7+e/yOyVhhEJAQrY5w/+PBYM7ZXA45VMAk/y/BN8MSUw/l5wyVFP q5eA4ODs8+AFQ5pEz1sC9uKsakylYwkaeWg7o4Rl1PslZYw2+ZjZhfM6tGzmO6fp NTNuMJCNSbJ4n2PGV2DefoVZPqPmA6YvpZuSh7FgC9fTkzG1Dm8PwJ8YDsgkzQ5m 1sQ0CbT0jXIXopSSzC/SvCZ18P0f/uMxH1sJaj9Ix8eOtsABsCFEcr+2InyRHTTD ECl8cC+SMABU4ayJ7VYDmlD3E1qRemJHqZM79RHAb27pQjN28OYBFJjI37S1aUq3 BF0jLYLnFa/52ftmU8aSmfgKFjK4xTygyx3eNQQLHH8ybR8N0xuquDBoDmzKiZpX gK5fDQHaZVPOiM0B+P/Ijdz7mVZdGbGXhHB6Zl8WAXMyvoF23I+TFPFVmMhFM0OK oK8/xaKH4yr6ab/LSyFBLq3BjsD36kI1Zq9XT5pNntvwu275tW/vfnc+iPzmY7a2 EGi7zMZNWHque6kHMKHaZJnO1JtpP/CXH/mP8f6gduTPnMJhmxBvAA2LJYEFT+C+ /e2yeAPc9d9VlRLKBPz2phIxmro3hZepdqkJJu8s69fzWwTVG6AYP8cZA/P5/yDg MypwT65ufXpUPWJo+SBWdQiKTZPFBO2y4LgzZJTlb1sOnKGJnnrsaBwwA7jrUFi/ ZhPLSsgr5HQ= =vKOg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-AlS1E3hS5sVsh486Qkjf--