linux-kernel - Re: [ 38/89] ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race

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Date:	Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:15:27 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ 38/89] ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush
 race

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 know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
> 
> commit 7fc00a3054b70b1794c2d64db703eb467ad0365c upstream.
> 
> Ensure that the rx tasklet is no longer running when entering the reset path.
> 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 to see
> it, so that the BA receive window does not go out of sync.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
[...]

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.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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