linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 18:16 UTC|newest]

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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-07 10:02 Michael Buesch
2007-08-07 10:18 ` Michael Buesch

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200707312016.31054.mb@bu3sch.de \
    --to=mb@bu3sch.de \
    --cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linville@tuxdriver.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).