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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/10] RTW88: Add support for USB variants
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 01:07:25PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> writes:
>
> > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:25:13PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> 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@realtek.com/
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> Can you add a comment to the code explaining this?

Sure.

> And
> lockdep_assert_held() is a good way to guarantee that the mutex is
> really held.

Yes, Ping-Ke already pointed that out. Will add in the next round.

Sascha

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