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A\nworker that passes that test can be delayed while teardown sets sta->dead\nand removes the station from the driver; when it resumes it still runs the\nfull delivery.\n\nThe existing cancel_work_sync() sits near the end of\n__cleanup_single_sta(), after the final driver state transition and after\nPS accounting and queue purging, so it drains the worker only once the\nstate it has to protect has already changed. Before commit d34ba2168a3c\n(\"mac80211: don't delay station destruction\") cleanup was deferred\nthrough the same ordered workqueue as the delivery work, which kept the\ntwo ordered.\n\nCancel the work after setting sta->dead and before moving the driver\nstate, and move the existing cancellation to the start of\n__cleanup_single_sta(). 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