From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, yi.zhu@intel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Ron Rindjunsky" <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: fix deadlock in sta->lock
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:32:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ba2fa240805260732g4c5942b2qec443dfc6d6339a7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211811554.4843.4.camel@johannes.berg>
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 17:09 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> From: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
>>
>> This patch fixes a deadlock of sta->lock use, occuring while changing
>> tx aggregation states, as dev_queue_xmit end up in new function
>> test_and_clear_sta_flags that uses that lock thus leading to deadlock
>
> Oh, good catch, thanks. Reminds me to debug the other deadlock I saw
> (not mac80211 related though)
>
very encouraging :) . Can you send me details I also experience some
lockups on rc2
Thanks
Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 14:09 [PATCH 1/1] mac80211: fix deadlock in sta->lock Tomas Winkler
2008-05-26 14:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 14:32 ` Tomas Winkler [this message]
2008-05-26 14:40 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-26 14:48 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-27 5:23 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-27 7:42 ` Ron Rindjunsky
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