From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Fix a locking bug in ath9k_add_interface()
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 16:43:49 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181106164349.C66C5601DA@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181019200842.7qclbjs547sm7mbn@kili.mountain>
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> We tried to revert commit d9c52fd17cb4 ("ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor
> mode interface") but accidentally missed part of the locking change.
>
> The lock has to be held earlier so that we're holding it when we do
> "sc->tx99_vif = vif;" and also there in the current code there is a
> stray unlock before we have taken the lock.
>
> Fixes: 6df0580be8bc ("ath9k: add back support for using active monitor interfaces for tx99")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.
461cf0360574 ath9k: Fix a locking bug in ath9k_add_interface()
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10650123/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-06 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-19 20:08 [PATCH] ath9k: Fix a locking bug in ath9k_add_interface() Dan Carpenter
2018-10-24 5:50 ` Kalle Valo
2018-10-24 12:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-10-24 12:58 ` Kalle Valo
2018-11-06 16:43 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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