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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Fix double locking on CSA counter update

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On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 16:51 +0200, Wojciech Dubowik wrote:
> We call rcu locked ieee80211_csa_update_counter from already locked
> section. Fix it by splitting ieee80211_csa_update_counter into
> locked and unlocked variants and use the latter in rcu locked section.

The subject of this patch implies there's a bug ("double locking", which
I'd interpret as "nested locking") and that there's something to fix.

At best, this is an optimisation, can you please label it as such?

johannes

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