Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while holding this spinlock. The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/reg.c | 8 +++----- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c index ed89c59..1ef1639 100644 --- a/net/wireless/reg.c +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ struct reg_regdb_search_request { }; static LIST_HEAD(reg_regdb_search_list); -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(reg_regdb_search_lock); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(reg_regdb_search_mutex); static void reg_regdb_search(struct work_struct *work) { @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static void reg_regdb_search(struct work_struct *work) const struct ieee80211_regdomain *curdom, *regdom; int i, r; - spin_lock(®_regdb_search_lock); + mutex_lock(®_regdb_search_mutex); while (!list_empty(®_regdb_search_list)) { request = list_first_entry(®_regdb_search_list, struct reg_regdb_search_request, @@ -346,18 +346,16 @@ static void reg_regdb_search(struct work_struct *work) r = reg_copy_regd(®dom, curdom); if (r) break; - spin_unlock(®_regdb_search_lock); mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex); set_regdom(regdom); mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex); - spin_lock(®_regdb_search_lock); break; } } kfree(request); } - spin_unlock(®_regdb_search_lock); + mutex_unlock(®_regdb_search_mutex); } static DECLARE_WORK(reg_regdb_work, reg_regdb_search); -- 1.6.2.5 -- 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