Re: [PATCH 00/10] RTW88: Add support for USB variants

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:25:13PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Another problem to address is that the driver uses
> > ieee80211_iterate_stations_atomic() and
> > ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic() and does register accesses
> > in the iterator. This doesn't work with USB, so iteration is done in two
> > steps now: The ieee80211_iterate_*_atomic() functions are only used to
> > collect the stations/interfaces on a list which is then iterated over
> > non-atomically in the second step. The implementation for this is
> > basically the one suggested by Ping-Ke here:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/423f474e15c948eda4db5bc9a50fd391@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Isn't this racy? What guarantees that vifs are not deleted after
> ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic() call?

The driver mutex &rtwdev->mutex is acquired during the whole
collection/iteration process. For deleting an interface
ieee80211_ops::remove_interface would have to be called, right?
That would acquire &rtwdev->mutex as well, so I think this should be
safe.

Sascha

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