3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 18db594a1005d908d995a2fc8f5a7bf4286fdca0 upstream. When changing cfg80211 to use RTNL locking, this caused a deadlock in mac80211 as it calls cfg80211_sched_scan_stopped() from a work item that's on a workqueue that is flushed with the RTNL held. Fix this by simply using schedule_work(), the work only needs to finish running before the wiphy is unregistered, no other synchronisation (e.g. with suspend) is really required since for suspend userspace is already blocked anyway when we flush the workqueue so will only pick up the event after resume. Fixes: 5fe231e87372 ("cfg80211: vastly simplify locking") Reported-and-tested-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/main.c | 1 + net/mac80211/scan.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee cancel_work_sync(&local->restart_work); cancel_work_sync(&local->reconfig_filter); + flush_work(&local->sched_scan_stopped_work); ieee80211_clear_tx_pending(local); rate_control_deinitialize(local); --- a/net/mac80211/scan.c +++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c @@ -1089,6 +1089,6 @@ void ieee80211_sched_scan_stopped(struct trace_api_sched_scan_stopped(local); - ieee80211_queue_work(&local->hw, &local->sched_scan_stopped_work); + schedule_work(&local->sched_scan_stopped_work); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_sched_scan_stopped); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html