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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Krishna Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"Sumit Garg" <sumit.garg@linaro.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	kuba@kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Matthias-Peter Schöpfer" <matthias.schoepfer@ithinx.io>,
	"Berg Philipp (HAU-EDS)" <Philipp.Berg@liebherr.com>,
	"Weitner Michael (HAU-EDS)" <Michael.Weitner@liebherr.com>,
	"Daniel Thompson" <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
	"Loic Poulain" <loic.poulain@linaro.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix race in ieee80211_register_hw()
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:06:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5575dfe84aa745a3c2a61e240c3d150dc8d9446f.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPxzY++YMBPTV4quAkYvEAMfULjMXLkVfNzwocwubno5HO2Bw@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20200406_162554_186372_29D110B6)

On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 19:55 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> > iw phy0 interface add wlan0 type station
> > ip link set wlan0 up
> Ah okay, got it, thanks. Very narrow window though :-) as the
> alloc_ordered_workqueue
> doesn't need RTNL and there is a long way to go to do if_add() from
> user and setup
> the driver for interrupts. 

True, I do wonder how this is hit. Maybe something with no preempt and a
uevent triggering things?

> Again depends on the driver though, it
> should properly handle
> pending ieee80211_register_hw() with start().

It could, but it'd be really tricky. Much better to fix mac80211.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-06 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-06 12:21 [PATCH] mac80211: fix race in ieee80211_register_hw() Sumit Garg
2020-04-06 12:44 ` Johannes Berg
2020-04-06 13:00   ` Sumit Garg
2020-04-06 12:44 ` Kalle Valo
2020-04-06 12:47   ` Johannes Berg
2020-04-06 12:52     ` Kalle Valo
2020-04-06 12:53       ` Johannes Berg
2020-04-06 13:04         ` Kalle Valo
2020-04-06 13:07           ` Johannes Berg
2020-04-06 13:21             ` Sumit Garg
2020-04-06 13:27               ` Kalle Valo
2020-04-06 13:55                 ` Krishna Chaitanya
2020-04-06 14:01                   ` Johannes Berg
2020-04-06 14:25                     ` Krishna Chaitanya
2020-04-06 15:06                       ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2020-04-06 18:08                         ` Krishna Chaitanya
2020-04-07  6:42                           ` Sumit Garg
2020-04-06 13:06     ` Sumit Garg

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