On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:59:41 Johannes Berg wrote: > Hey, > > I just managed to deadlock bcm43xx when I was trying to do something > with iwconfig at the same time as telling network manager to shut off > the interface. It stayed up and things were locked up. > > I haven't been able to analyse it yet, I dumped process stacks a few > times and put the resulting log at > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/mac80211-bcm43xx-deadlock > > Note that many processes are in rtnl_lock() but wpa_supplicant is stuck > in wait_for_completion. > > johannes > That's a known bug. See the FIXME at stop_core() where we stop the mac80211-queues. mac80211 needs to be fixed to fix this. ;) We need a function to stop and flush the TX queues from _outside_ of the TX handlers. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
