From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f222.google.com ([209.85.218.222]:38546 "EHLO mail-bw0-f222.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758219AbZFANL6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:11:58 -0400 Received: by bwz22 with SMTP id 22so7456629bwz.37 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:11:59 -0700 (PDT) To: "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Jason Andryuk , Johannes Berg , karllinuxtest.relton@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] at76c50x-usb: avoid mutex deadlock in at76_dwork_hw_scan References: <20090528004925.d6d9be31.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1243503926-5094-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:11:54 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1243503926-5094-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> (John W. Linville's message of "Thu\, 28 May 2009 11\:45\:26 +0200") Message-ID: <87ws7wt7xh.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "John W. Linville" writes: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13312 > > at76_dwork_hw_scan holds a mutex while calling ieee80211_scan_completed, > which then calls at76_config which needs the same mutex. This reworks > the ordering to not hold the lock while calling ieee80211_scan_completed. > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Thanks. Acked-by: Kalle Valo -- Kalle Valo