ieee802154/submac: avoid race condition between RX_DONE and ACK_TIMEOUT [backport 2021.10] #16973
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Backport of #16964
Contribution description
This PR makes adapts the documentation of
ieee802154_submac_ack_timer_fired
to prevent execution whenieee802154_submac_ack_timer_cancel
was called. Since the SubMAC does not impose any rules on how it should be processed, this leaves the responsibility to the upper layer.This also adapts
netdev_submac_ieee802154
andtests/ieee802154_submac
accordingly.Testing procedure
It's very hard to trigger, but the consequences of this bug are more visible when using
socket_zep
(see #16932 (comment))Anyway, here's the test output for
tests/ieee802154_submac
andexamples/gnrc_lorawan
.Issues/PRs references
Discovered by @benpicco in #16932 (comment)