On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 13:17 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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() Ok ... we don't really need to hold the rdev lock since it's all under rtnl. Can you please confirm this is safe? http://p.sipsolutions.net/bde4760671f3e250.txt 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
