From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:29:13 +0100 > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > > Sowmini pointed out Dmitry's RTNL deadlock report to me, and it turns out > to be perfectly accurate - there are various error paths that miss unlock > of the RTNL. > > To fix those, change the locking a bit to not be conditional in all those > nl80211_prepare_*_dump() functions, but make those require the RTNL to > start with, and fix the buggy error paths. This also let me use sparse > (by appropriately overriding the rtnl_lock/rtnl_unlock functions) to > validate the changes. > > Reported-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Johannes, I assume I will get this in a future pull request?
