linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211/wlcore: Add ieee80211_hw variable to get_expected

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Date:	Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:34:21 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Altshul, Maxim" <maxim.altshul@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"john.stultz@...aro.org" <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Eliad Peller <eliad@...ery.com>,
	"Machani, Yaniv" <yanivma@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211/wlcore: Add ieee80211_hw variable to
 get_expected_throughput

On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 13:25 +0000, Altshul, Maxim wrote:
> Hi,
> 1) Sorry about the change log, I will try to be clearer next time.

Just mention something about how the bug happens please, at least.

> 2+3) The issue is not that the station is not known, it's that
> wl_sta->wl was null. 
> wl member is now completely removed from wl_sta (PATCH 2/2) and hw is
> sent directly from mac80211 to the driver (so it can get hw->priv).

Right, I understand that wl_sta->wl was NULL. But the driver must have
some code to assign wl_sta->wl, right? And that would be called in
add_sta or sta_state. Thus the reason for the crash would be that the
station wasn't actually known to the driver yet.

Even if that wasn't quite the reason here, I think we need to take it
into account and check sta->uploaded before calling the driver, so I'd
like you to submit a patch for that.

johannes