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From: David Miller <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
To: johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org
Cc: linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org,
	miles.lane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
	linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wext: let get_wireless_stats() sleep
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:22:39 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091005.022239.95915308.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254734159.22426.6.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org>

From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:15:59 +0200

> A number of drivers (recently including cfg80211-based ones)
> assume that all wireless handlers, including statistics, can
> sleep and they often also implicitly assume that the rtnl is
> held around their invocation. This is almost always true now
> except when reading from sysfs:
 ...
> Fix this by using the rtnl instead of dev_base_lock.
> 
> Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>

Fair enough, applied, thanks!
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05  9:15 [PATCH] wext: let get_wireless_stats() sleep Johannes Berg
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2009-10-05  9:22   ` David Miller [this message]

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