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Re: Missing wiphy lock in ieee80211_color_collision_detection_work

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On Thu, 2024-09-19 at 12:02 +0200, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> 
> > Did I miss something ? Which one should we do ? I'm not sure of all the
> > implications of switching to the wiphy work queue and why it did not get
> > converted like the color_change_finalize_work stuff ?
> 
> ieee80211_color_collision_detection_work() used to lock the wdev mutex, now it 
> does not hold anything since 076fc8775da("wifi: cfg80211: remove wdev mutex")
> 
> Also the rate limiting uses delayed_work_pending(), There is no wiphy work queue 
> equivalent AFAIK, so the explicit lock is probably the way to go.

That won't work, it's cancel_delayed_work_sync() under the wiphy mutex,
so that'll cause deadlocks (and should cause lockdep complaints about
them.)

johannes





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