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Re: mac80211/bcm43xx deadlock

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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:06 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> I'm not convinced this is the same thing, the deadlock here is simply
> that something running on the workqueue is trying to rtnl_lock() while
> flushing the workqueue is done under rtnl.

Looking again, Michael agrees that this is not the same deadlock he's
talking about, so back to the drawing board.

I shall be trying to add lockdep support for this sort of thing, but
until then how can we fix this? What exactly does the rtnl protect in
ieee80211_sta_config_auth?

johannes

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