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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:28:25 -0800
From:      "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
To:        "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@mu.org>, <sam@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <imp@freebsd.org>, <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: wi driver
Message-ID:  <33c601c2ec46$0d48dce0$52557f42@errno.com>
References:  <20030317051920.GN4145@elvis.mu.org> <20030317052534.GO4145@elvis.mu.org>

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> * Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> [030316 21:19] wrote:
> > um..
> >
> ...
> 840     _FLAGS_OUTRANGE) {
> 841                     WI_UNLOCK(sc);
> 842                     return;
> 843             }
> 844             KASSERT((ifp->if_flags & IFF_OACTIVE) == 0,
> 845                     ("wi_start: if_flags %x\n", ifp->if_flags));
> 846
> 847             memset(&frmhdr, 0, sizeof(frmhdr));
>
> >
> > What's up here?
>
> It's a race, we shouldn't be inspecting the ifp without a lock.
>
> I think this kassert should be removed.
>
> Do you guys concurr?

Warner has this pending with some other fixes; perhaps he can accelerate
doing the commit?  The assert is actually just bogus (if_start can be called
under certain conditions with IFF_OACTIVE set.

    Sam


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