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From: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
	Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@nxp.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
	dave@bewaar.me
Subject: Re: [BUG] Deadlock in _cfg80211_unregister_wdev()
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 15:46:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <da9f48e0-42fe-1f27-6ed8-ea796f95f894@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98392296-40ee-6300-369c-32e16cff3725@gmail.com>

On 5/14/21 1:07 AM, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> Following commit a05829a7222e ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when
> calling the driver"), the mwifiex_pcie module fails to unload. This also
> prevents the device from rebooting / shutting down.
> 
> Attempting to unload the module produces the log pasted below. Upon
> further investigation, this looks like a deadlock inside
> _cfg80211_unregister_wdev():
> 
> - According to [1], this function expects the rdev->wiphy.mtx to be
>    held.
> - Down the line, this function (through some indirections, see third
>    trace in log below) calls call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_GOING_DOWN,
>    ...) [2].
> - One of the registered notifiers seems to be
>    cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call(), which attempts to lock
>    rdev->wiphy.mtx again [3], completing the deadlock.

Looks like the underlying issue also leads to

   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/ab4d00ce52f32bd8e45ad0448a44737e@bewaar.me/

Regards,
Max

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-14 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-13 23:07 [BUG] Deadlock in _cfg80211_unregister_wdev() Maximilian Luz
2021-05-14  8:26 ` Johannes Berg
2021-05-14 11:40   ` Maximilian Luz
2021-05-15  2:44   ` Brian Norris
2021-05-15 11:24     ` Maximilian Luz
2021-05-14 13:46 ` Maximilian Luz [this message]

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