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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: only single mutex locked to prevent deadlock
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:23:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264443803.23766.48.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264443136-30865-1-git-send-email-wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>

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On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:12 -0800, wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com wrote:
> From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
> 
> Both ifmgd->mtx and sdata->local->iflist_mtx are locked in
> ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap(), not sure it will cause deadlock condition. but
> it is better to only has one mutex at a time.

It shouldn't cause a deadlock, we do this all the time, e.g. in
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_resp(), so I don't think the extra locking makes
a lot of sense.

johannes

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-25 18:12 [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: only single mutex locked to prevent deadlock wey-yi.w.guy
2010-01-25 18:23 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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