From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:43185 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761400AbXGaSQo (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:16:44 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix deadlock of wx_set_essid with assoc work Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:16:30 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville References: <200707311457.33723.mb@bu3sch.de> <1185894060.3083.115.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1185894060.3083.115.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200707312016.31054.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > > > -- > > > > 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.