From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
open11s <devel@lists.open80211s.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix deadlock in cfg80211_leave_mesh()
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 17:30:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130601213037.GE1030@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG6hwVNZ4oDGsZTLO0gqQ2eWV-C7rxQZ2F=PiR9-URc44FxgKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:53:35PM -0700, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
> wdev->mtx is already held). But it does look weird for cfg80211 to
> drop a lock on behalf of the driver.
This did cross my mind, but I thought maybe it made sense to do
it there to make it easier to reason about the code -- if dropped
in mac80211, someone reading the code would have no idea.
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-01 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-01 13:19 [PATCH] cfg80211: fix deadlock in cfg80211_leave_mesh() Bob Copeland
2013-06-01 20:53 ` Thomas Pedersen
2013-06-01 21:30 ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2013-06-03 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-03 15:19 ` Bob Copeland
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