Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix wireless regulatory API misuse

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:54:09AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> This code ends up calling wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory(), for which
> we document that it should be called before wiphy_register(). This
> driver doesn't do that, but calls it from ndo_open() with the RTNL
> held, which caused deadlocks.
> 
> Since the driver just registers static regdomain data and then the
> notifier applies the channel changes if any, there's no reason for
> it to call this in ndo_open(), move it earlier to fix the deadlock.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Fixes: 51d62f2f2c50 ("cfg80211: Save the regulatory domain with a lock")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> ---
> Greg, can you take this for 5.11 please? Or if you prefer, since the
> patch that exposed this and broke the driver went through my tree, I
> can take it as well.

Please feel free to take it through yours, as I don't think I'll have
any more staging patches for 5.11-final (or none have been sent to me
yet), so this might be the fastest way in:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>