From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the net-next tree with the net tree Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130619.203712.1274791928658538966.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20130620125823.da633b21e33688372729b9c0@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130620125823.da633b21e33688372729b9c0@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:58:23 +1000 > Today's linux-next merge of the net-next tree got a conflict in > net/wireless/nl80211.c between commit 3a5a423bb958 ("nl80211: fix attrbuf > access race by allocating a separate one") from the net tree and commit > 5fe231e87372 ("cfg80211: vastly simplify locking") from the net-next tree. > > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no action > is required). I did this merge a few hours ago and hit the same conflict. Although I fixed the bug in that rtnl_unlock() is not performed in all the return code paths.