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Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction

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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where
> the exact same deadlock (see the original commit referenced
> below) can still happen if cfg80211_destroy_ifaces() already
> runs while nl80211_netlink_notify() is still marking some
> interfaces as nl_owner_dead.
>
> The race happens because we have two loops here - first we
> dev_close() all the netdevs, and then we destroy them. If we
> also have two netdevs (first one need only be a wdev though)
> then we can find one during the first iteration, close it,
> and go to the second iteration -- but then find two, and try
> to destroy also the one we didn't close yet.
>
> Fix this by only iterating once.
>
> Change-Id: Ie56cd0ef3f0d2108bb8a25c8bb5efced15e6a909

You forgot the Change-Id.

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