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Re: [Patch net] wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init()

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Hi!

> This fixes the following kernel warning:
> 
>   [ 5668.771453] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, kworker/u2:3/9745
...
>   [ 5668.777343] [<c06a4f94>] (ieee80211_subif_start_xmit) from
>   [<c0578848>] (dev_hard_start_xmit+0x80/0x118)
>   ...
> 
> by adding the missing spin_lock_init().
> 
> Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks very reasonable.

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>

I tried testing it, and resulting kernel works, but even going back to
broken kernel I can't reproduce the problem on demand...

Best regards,
								Pavel

> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c
> @@ -1571,6 +1571,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *wl1251_alloc_hw(void)
>  
>  	wl->state = WL1251_STATE_OFF;
>  	mutex_init(&wl->mutex);
> +	spin_lock_init(&wl->wl_lock);
>  
>  	wl->tx_mgmt_frm_rate = DEFAULT_HW_GEN_TX_RATE;
>  	wl->tx_mgmt_frm_mod = DEFAULT_HW_GEN_MODULATION_TYPE;

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