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Re: [PATCHv3] mac80211: Fix circular locking dependency in ARP filter handling

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On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:08 +0300, Juuso Oikarinen wrote:
> > However I'm a bit worried that making this workqueue change will allow
> > the filter reconfigure to cross with suspend, which might mean it could
> > execute after the device is suspended?
> 
> Ah yes. That's an obvious side-effect. I wonder if it would be solved by
> flushing this particular work along with the mac80211 wq in the suspend
> call, or would the implications then just move further?

But that's under rtnl.

> Apart from the above, I'm out of ideas. If this is getting too complex,
> I'll need to revert back to the patch that does not take into account
> the promisc mode.

probably the best choice for now at least

johannes

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