Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752296Ab2E1V7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2012 17:59:19 -0400 Received: from mail-gh0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:33587 "EHLO mail-gh0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344Ab2E1V7R (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2012 17:59:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4FC3F530.6070906@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 16:59:12 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120421 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Greg KH CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Joshua Roys , Neptune Ning , "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [ 89/94] rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached References: <20120527010332.GA11170@kroah.com> <20120527010436.309233153@linuxfoundation.org> <20120528202113.GD2915@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> In-Reply-To: <20120528202113.GD2915@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 34 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 >> >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/