This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: don't try to sleep in rate_control_rate_init() to the 4.9-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: mac80211-don-t-try-to-sleep-in-rate_control_rate_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017 From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:29:09 +0100 Subject: mac80211: don't try to sleep in rate_control_rate_init() From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 115865fa0826ed18ca04717cf72d0fe874c0fe7f ] In my previous patch, I missed that rate_control_rate_init() is called from some places that cannot sleep, so it cannot call ieee80211_recalc_min_chandef(). Remove that call for now to fix the context bug, we'll have to find a different way to fix the minimum channel width issue. Fixes: 96aa2e7cf126 ("mac80211: calculate min channel width correctly") Reported-by: Xiaolong Ye (via lkp-robot) <xiaolong.ye@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/rate.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/mac80211/rate.c +++ b/net/mac80211/rate.c @@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ void rate_control_rate_init(struct sta_i ieee80211_sta_set_rx_nss(sta); - ieee80211_recalc_min_chandef(sta->sdata); - if (!ref) return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mac80211-calculate-min-channel-width-correctly.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-prevent-skb-txq-mismatch.patch queue-4.9/mac80211-don-t-try-to-sleep-in-rate_control_rate_init.patch