Re: BUG in rt2x00lib_txdone() with 2.6.37-rc8

[Ivo Van Doorn]

Hi,

> Just a shot in the dark but since the stack trace shows the newly added
> watchdog this might be the result of a race between a regular txdone work
> (mac80211 workqueue) vs the watchdog work (global workqueue).
>
> I guess the following situation could happen:
> A regular tx done work calls rt2x00lib_txdone which first sets entry->skb to
> NULL, calls the driver specific clear_entry and afterwards increases
> Q_INDEX_DONE. If the watchdog work calls rt2x00lib_txdone on a different CPU
> inbetween the skb might be NULL and cause the above oops.

This could be, would be interesting to know if compat-wireless also shows
this problem. Because the queue refactoring code which should have solved
these race conditions was added after 2.6.37.

Ivo
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