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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mac80211: fix mesh deadlock

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On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 13:17 -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> The patch "cfg80211/mac80211: use cfg80211 wdev mutex in
> mac80211" introduced several deadlocks by converting the
> ifmsh->mtx to wdev->mtx. Solve these by:
> 
> 1. drop the cancel_work_sync() in ieee80211_stop_mesh().
>    Instead make the mesh work conditional on whether the mesh
>    is running or not.
> 2. lock the mesh work with sdata_lock() to protect beacon
>    updates and prevent races with wdev->mesh_id_len or
>    cfg80211.

Applied, thanks.

johannes

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