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* [PATCH] wifi: cw1200: Revert "Fix locking in error paths"
@ 2026-04-30 17:44 Bart Van Assche
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From: Bart Van Assche @ 2026-04-30 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Johannes Berg; +Cc: linux-wireless, Bart Van Assche, Ben Hutchings, Kees Cook

Revert commit d98c24617a83 ("wifi: cw1200: Fix locking in error paths")
because it introduces a locking bug instead of fixing a locking bug.
cw1200_wow_resume() unlocks priv->conf_mutex. Hence, adding
mutex_unlock(&priv->conf_mutex) just after cw1200_wow_resume() is wrong.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/408661f69f263266b028713e1412ba36d457e63d.camel@decadent.org.uk/
Fixes: d98c24617a83 ("wifi: cw1200: Fix locking in error paths")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/pm.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/pm.c b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/pm.c
index 84eb15d729c7..120f0379f81d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/pm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/pm.c
@@ -264,14 +264,12 @@ int cw1200_wow_suspend(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct cfg80211_wowlan *wowlan)
 		wiphy_err(priv->hw->wiphy,
 			  "PM request failed: %d. WoW is disabled.\n", ret);
 		cw1200_wow_resume(hw);
-		mutex_unlock(&priv->conf_mutex);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
 	/* Force resume if event is coming from the device. */
 	if (atomic_read(&priv->bh_rx)) {
 		cw1200_wow_resume(hw);
-		mutex_unlock(&priv->conf_mutex);
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 

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