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Re: [PATCH 5.12 regression fix] brcmfmac: p2p: Fix recently introduced deadlock issue

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On Sat, 2021-03-13 at 15:36 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Commit a05829a7222e ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the
> driver") replaced the rtnl_lock parameter passed to various brcmf
> functions with just lock, because since that commit it is not just
> about the rtnl_lock but also about the wiphy_lock .
> 
> During this search/replace the "if (!rtnl_locked)" check in brcmfmac/p2p.c
> was accidentally replaced with "if (locked)", dropping the inversion of
> the check. This causes the code to now call rtnl_lock() while already
> holding the lock, causing a deadlock.
> 
> Add back the "!" to the if-condition to fix this.

Ouch, sorry about that, and thanks for the fix!

johannes




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