The work that we cancel there requires the cfg80211_mutex, so we can't cancel it under the mutex, which is fine, we can just move it to after the locked section. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/core.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/core.c 2009-07-13 13:07:44.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/core.c 2009-07-13 13:08:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -586,11 +586,6 @@ void wiphy_unregister(struct wiphy *wiph /* unlock again before freeing */ mutex_unlock(&rdev->mtx); - cancel_work_sync(&rdev->conn_work); - cancel_work_sync(&rdev->scan_done_wk); - kfree(rdev->scan_req); - flush_work(&rdev->event_work); - cfg80211_debugfs_rdev_del(rdev); /* If this device got a regulatory hint tell core its @@ -602,6 +597,11 @@ void wiphy_unregister(struct wiphy *wiph debugfs_remove(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir); mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex); + + cancel_work_sync(&rdev->conn_work); + cancel_work_sync(&rdev->scan_done_wk); + kfree(rdev->scan_req); + flush_work(&rdev->event_work); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(wiphy_unregister); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html