From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix deadlock of wx_set_essid with assoc work
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:16:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707312016.31054.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185894060.3083.115.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 17:01:00 David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:57 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > The essid wireless extension does deadlock against the assoc mutex,
> > as we don't unlock the assoc mutex.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> >
> > --
> >
> > David, please test if this fixes your deadlock.
>
> Seems to, although I'll have to leave it a few more hours before I'm
> sure. Thanks.
Ok, this is a deadlock, anyway. Even if it's not "your" deadlock. :)
So I'll build a correct patch for this (this was an incomplete
hack) and submit it.
--
Greetings Michael.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 12:57 [PATCH] softmac: Fix deadlock of wx_set_essid with assoc work Michael Buesch
2007-07-31 15:01 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-31 18:16 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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2007-08-07 10:02 Michael Buesch
2007-08-07 10:18 ` Michael Buesch
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