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Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver

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Hi Peter,


> I'm seeing warnings like this on 5.12.0-rc2 which I think were caused
> by your patch.
> 
> [    4.898946][  T455] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    4.899434][  T455] RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (10988)

Yes, sorry about that. I clearly didn't audit that particular code path
(well enough, or at all) with the locking changes.

Even worse, it probably deadlocks?

In any case, I fixed it here, I believe:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=77cbf790e5b482256662e14c8b6ef4fecb07d06d

johannes




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