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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix locking for SIWFREQ
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:55:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7E3AB2.5070103@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249722238.31670.17.camel@johannes.local>

Johannes Berg wrote:
> "cfg80211: validate channel settings across interfaces"
> contained a locking bug -- in the managed-mode SIWFREQ
> call it would end up running into a lock recursion.
> 
> This fixes it by not checking that particular interface
> for a channel that it needs to stay on, which is as it
> should be as that's the interface we're setting the
> channel for.
> 
> Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---

This patch also fixes the problem that I had.

Larry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-09  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-08  9:03 [PATCH] cfg80211: fix locking for SIWFREQ Johannes Berg
2009-08-08  9:41 ` Kalle Valo
2009-08-09  2:55 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-08-10 16:55 ` reinette chatre

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