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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT v2] cfg80211: fix possible circular lock on reg_regdb_search()
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50533297.2030103@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347569712-24886-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>

On 2012-09-13 10:55 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
> 
> When call_crda() is called we kick off a witch hunt search
> for the same regulatory domain on our internal regulatory
> database and that work gets kicked off on a workqueue, this
> is done while the cfg80211_mutex is held. If that workqueue
> kicks off it will first lock reg_regdb_search_mutex and
> later cfg80211_mutex but to ensure two CPUs will not contend
> against cfg80211_mutex the right thing to do is to have the
> reg_regdb_search() wait until the cfg80211_mutex is let go.
Tested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>


      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-13 20:55 [RFT v2] cfg80211: fix possible circular lock on reg_regdb_search() Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-09-14 13:35 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]

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