[PATCH V8 1/3] ath11k: switch to using ieee80211_tx_status_ext()

[Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu]

On 2021-03-18 22:31, Karthikeyan periyasamy wrote:
>> -	ieee80211_tx_status(ar->hw, msdu);
>> +	spin_lock_bh(&ab->base_lock);
>> +	peer = ath11k_peer_find_by_id(ab, ts->peer_id);
>> +	if (peer) {
>> +		arsta = (struct ath11k_sta *)peer->sta->drv_priv;
>> +		status.sta = peer->sta;
>> +		status.skb = msdu;
>> +		status.info = info;
>> +		status.rate = &arsta->last_txrate;
> 
> Assigning arsta holded last_txrate pointer to status.rate create race
> condition problem b/w sta delete and ieee80211_tx_status_ext, no ?
> Hw we ensure that arsta pointer is valid until
> ieee80211_tx_status_ext() processing?
> 
> Instead why don't we have local struct rate_info and assign like below
> code snippet
> 
>         struct rate_info rate;
> ...
>         rate = arsta->last_txrate;
>         status.rate = &rate;
> 
> Thanks,
> Karthikeyan P
Thanks Karthikeyan, I have addressed this in V9..