From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] iwlwifi: fix possible recursive locking deadlock
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:30:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100730113152.151224384@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100730113045.923567583@sipsolutions.net
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
commit f84b29ec0a1ab767679d3f2428877b65f94bc3ff
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Tue May 18 02:29:13 2010 -0700
iwlwifi: queue user-initiated scan when doing internal scan
introduced a potential deadlock because it calls
ieee80211_scan_completed() with the priv->mutex
held, but mac80211 may call back into iwlwifi
which would lead to recursive locking. Move this
out from under the mutex.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c 2010-07-30 13:27:51.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c 2010-07-30 13:27:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -2000,6 +2000,7 @@ void iwl_mac_remove_interface(struct iee
struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
{
struct iwl_priv *priv = hw->priv;
+ bool scan_completed = false;
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "enter\n");
@@ -2013,7 +2014,7 @@ void iwl_mac_remove_interface(struct iee
if (priv->vif == vif) {
priv->vif = NULL;
if (priv->scan_vif == vif) {
- ieee80211_scan_completed(priv->hw, true);
+ scan_completed = true;
priv->scan_vif = NULL;
priv->scan_request = NULL;
}
@@ -2021,6 +2022,9 @@ void iwl_mac_remove_interface(struct iee
}
mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
+ if (scan_completed)
+ ieee80211_scan_completed(priv->hw, true);
+
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211(priv, "leave\n");
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-30 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-30 11:30 [PATCH 0/2] hw scan fixes Johannes Berg
2010-07-30 11:30 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-07-30 11:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: fix scan locking wrt. hw scan Johannes Berg
2010-07-30 12:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] hw scan fixes Johannes Berg
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