Re: [Regression] 6.1.66, 6.6.5 - wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range use

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

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 04:26:26PM +0700, Philip Müller wrote:
> On 11.12.23 16:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 04:02:11PM +0700, Philip Müller wrote:
> > > Hi Johannes, hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > Any tree that back-ported 7e7efdda6adb wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range
> > > use that does not contain 076fc8775daf wifi: cfg80211: remove wdev mutex
> > > (which does not apply cleanly to 6.6.y or 6.6.1) will be affected.
> > > 
> > > You can find a downstream bug report at Arch Linux:
> > > 
> > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux/-/issues/17
> > > 
> > > So we should either revert 7e7efdda6adb or backport the needed to those
> > > kernel series. 6.7.y is reported to work with 6.7.0-rc4.
> > 
> > Yeah, this looks bad, I'll go just revert this for now and push out a
> > new release with the fix as lots of people are hitting it.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> there is actually a fix for it:
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg703040.html

That "fix" was not cc:ed to any of the wifi developers and would need a
lot of review before I feel comfortable accepting it, as I said in the
response to that message.

Also, please point to lore.kernel.org lists, it's much easier to handle
as we don't have any control over any other archive web site.

thanks,

greg k-h