From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: d80211 deadlock with wpa_supplicant and rmmod Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:45:16 +0200 Message-ID: <1184363116.3928.4.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1caff7430707111617o70a534a5x2cf6b611a91f301a@mail.gmail.com> <20070711234153.GB5099@tuxdriver.com> <1184234538.6669.30.camel@johannes.berg> <1caff7430707130505r579ef08cmacc6c77f7535a66c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-RucqRhR5xTmmQV7QIA41" Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "John W. Linville" To: seventh guardian Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1caff7430707130505r579ef08cmacc6c77f7535a66c-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-RucqRhR5xTmmQV7QIA41 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:05 +0100, seventh guardian wrote: > Hello, sorry for the delay but I only managed to try it out today.. > I've applied the patch and tortured the system as far as I could, and > no hang at all :) >=20 > I've read the thread and it apparently replaces one bad problem for a > lesser one, so I understand if it's not applied.. But at least there > is a place in the code to point as the culprit :) It definitely should be applied anyway :) I guess John just hasn't caught up with all threads yet. John: This is about the patch in the "mac80211/bcm43xx deadlock" thread from Michael, it kills some rtnl_lock()/unlock() that causes this deadlock. johannes --=-RucqRhR5xTmmQV7QIA41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGl/Jr/ETPhpq3jKURAsoKAJ4kmG99jFTH0u0WiCkR1WlcpXlosQCeJJc2 62yOqMlYCaThL6CpS8PprkI= =kbeB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-RucqRhR5xTmmQV7QIA41--