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Re: [PATCH 3.0] cfg80211: fix deadlock with rfkill/sched_scan by adding new mutex

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On 30 June 2011 06:32, Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx> wrote:
> There was a deadlock when rfkill-blocking a wireless interface,
> because we were locking the rdev mutex on NETDEV_GOING_DOWN to stop
> sched_scans that were eventually running.  The rfkill block code was
> already holding a mutex under rdev:

It has survived several software and hardware rfkills here, so looks
good to me, thanks!

Cheers,
Duane.

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