On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 13:12 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi Michal, > > A few people noticed that these patches cause deadlocks. I think the > reason is that it's not allowed to lock the device here: > > > case NETDEV_DOWN: > > dev_hold(dev); > > + cfg80211_lock_rdev(rdev); > > This causes a deadlock since the interface is set down inside mac80211 > when inside a handler from cfg80211 already, or so. I just reproduce it -- it's because we come from nl80211_del_interface() johannes -- 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
