Re: [ 89/94] rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached

[Larry Finger]

On 05/28/2012 03:21 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:05:52AM +0900, Greg KH wrote:
> > 3.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 574e02abaf816b582685805f0c1150ca9f1f18ee upstream.
> >
> > In commit b0302ab, the rtlwifi family of drivers was converted to use
> > asynchronous firmware loading. Unfortumately, the implementation was
> > racy, and the ieee80211 routines could be started before rtl_init_core()
> > was called to setup the data.
>
> Shouldn't also 3.3 have another fix after b0302ab was applied to it,
> that is commit 0298dc9 ("rtlwifi: rtl8192de: Fix firmware initialization") ?
> I noted it is missing, cherry-picks cleanly here on 3.3

Yes, that patch could be applied to 3.3. I chose not to mark it as Cc Stable as 
that card is not widely available, thus I did not expect the problem to harm 
many users. On reflection, I think I made the wrong choice.

Greg, could you please apply mainline commit 0298dc9 to 3.3-stable?

Thanks,

Larry

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