Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] pppoatm: protect against freeing of vcc

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:04 +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:

The ->close() routine can just abort any pending rx/tx and just wait
for completion of currently running rx/tx code. That shouldn't take
long.

If it's been submitted to the hardware for DMA, it can't do that very
easily.

And if I can't be bothered to write code to go through the entire damn
queue and inspect every packet to see if it's a data packet and check
the VCI/VPI and try to steal it, it can't be done for the software queue
either :)

The queue ought to be short; if it isn't, then we already screwed up.
The close therefore should be quick, and it *doesn't* have to be
instant.

If someone wants to return immediately, there's always
vcc_release_async()...

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dwmw2