This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mt76: mt7615: fix possible deadlock while mt7615_register_ext_phy() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mt76-mt7615-fix-possible-deadlock-while-mt7615_regis.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8c5483d964a2d8ed19b9f289739506a98637ef3f Author: Peter Chiu <chui-hao.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 1 10:01:13 2021 +0800 mt76: mt7615: fix possible deadlock while mt7615_register_ext_phy() [ Upstream commit 8c55516de3f9b76b9d9444e7890682ec2efc809f ] ieee80211_register_hw() is called with rtnl_lock held, and this could be caused lockdep from a work item that's on a workqueue that is flushed with the rtnl held. Move mt7615_register_ext_phy() outside the init_work(). Signed-off-by: Peter Chiu <chui-hao.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/pci_init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/pci_init.c index a2465b49ecd0c..87b4aa52ee0f9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/pci_init.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/pci_init.c @@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ static void mt7615_pci_init_work(struct work_struct *work) return; mt7615_init_work(dev); - if (dev->dbdc_support) - mt7615_register_ext_phy(dev); } static int mt7615_init_hardware(struct mt7615_dev *dev) @@ -160,6 +158,12 @@ int mt7615_register_device(struct mt7615_dev *dev) mt7615_init_txpower(dev, &dev->mphy.sband_2g.sband); mt7615_init_txpower(dev, &dev->mphy.sband_5g.sband); + if (dev->dbdc_support) { + ret = mt7615_register_ext_phy(dev); + if (ret) + return ret; + } + return mt7615_init_debugfs(dev); }