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Re: [PATCH wireless-2.6] rt2x00: fix rmmod crash

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Hello

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:25:37PM +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx> wrote:
> > Do not destroy workqueue, which still can be used by autowakeup_work,
> > before ieee80211_unregister_hw() is called.
> 
> Well isn't the bug then that autowakeup_work isn't cancelled using
> cancel_work_sync
> like the other workqueue tasks?
> 
> I rather add the call to cancel_work_sync then moving the killing of
> the workqueue.
> The position where the workqueue is destroyed should be the place
> where we cancel
> all scheduled work, that way we can assume no rt2x00-related threads ater this
> position.

rt2x00lib_config() could be running simultaneously to rt2x00lib_remove_dev()
and queue just canceled autowake_work again into (just destroyed) workqueue.
Other solution to fix, would be use ieee80211_queue_work() instead of custom
workqueue, is that better?

Stanislaw
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