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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: thomas@cozybit.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@lists.open80211s.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix deadlock in cfg80211_leave_mesh()
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:19:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130603151942.GF8644@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370271421.8227.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>

On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 04:57:01PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> However, I think that in mac80211 we can instead just remove the locking
> and the cancel_work_sync() since the latter will happen whenever the
> interface goes down, in a different code path outside of this. Just need
> to make sure the work can cope with running while the interface is not
> joined to a mesh, but I guess that's not going to be a big problem.

Yeah, that would be a better approach.  We (myself or Thomas) can give
that a shot today.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03 15:20 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
2013-06-03 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-03 15:19   ` Bob Copeland [this message]

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