From: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:08:25 -0700 > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Requesting external module with cb_lock taken can result in >> the deadlock like showed below: ... >> Problem start to happen after adding net-pf-16-proto-16-family-nl80211 >> alias name to cfg80211 module by below commit (though that commit >> itself is perfectly fine): >> >> commit fb4e156886ce6e8309e912d8b370d192330d19d3 >> Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Sun Apr 28 16:22:06 2013 -0700 >> >> nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211 >> >> Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> ... > This is genl issue and it was introduced by commit def3117493eafd > (genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.). > > Reviewed-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks. -- 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
