From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix locking for SIWFREQ
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:41:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlaalk1x.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249722238.31670.17.camel@johannes.local> (Johannes Berg's message of "Sat\, 08 Aug 2009 11\:03\:58 +0200")
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> "cfg80211: validate channel settings across interfaces"
> contained a locking bug -- in the managed-mode SIWFREQ
> call it would end up running into a lock recursion.
>
> This fixes it by not checking that particular interface
> for a channel that it needs to stay on, which is as it
> should be as that's the interface we're setting the
> channel for.
Thanks, this fixes the problem I reported.
> Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-08 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-08 9:03 [PATCH] cfg80211: fix locking for SIWFREQ Johannes Berg
2009-08-08 9:41 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2009-08-09 2:55 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-10 16:55 ` reinette chatre
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