Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mwifiex: fix racing condition when downloading firmware | From | Kalle Valo <> | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:25:19 +0000 (UTC) |
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Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@chromium.org> wrote: > The action 'check for winner' and 'download firmware' should be an > atomic action. This is true for btmrvl driver but not mwmfiex, which > cause firmware download to fail when the following senerio happens: > > 1) mwifiex check winner status: true > 2) btmrvl check winner status: true, and start downloading firmware > 3) mwfieix tries to download firmware, but failed because btmrvl is > already downloading. > > This won't happen if 1) and 3) is an atomic action. This patch adds > sdio_claim/release_host call around those two actions to make sure it's > atomic. > > Signed-off-by: Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@chromium.org>
Thanks, 1 patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:
65c71efe1c59 mwifiex: fix racing condition when downloading firmware
-- Sent by pwcli https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9123771/
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