From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753745AbYGWMQr (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:16:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751734AbYGWMQh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:16:37 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.236]:5938 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750959AbYGWMQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:16:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=i1oRN/omW+rUHREgTecA51qJFhhgPPU4EGvjPETMdcaJnyNEMRLf2mhYX+6fG3E46a W/4+0DwO/5GLAnyi9M3UkFtRaWe/S5No+KVp7ZtUo8oyR4dW+kZfTL6dGJmnoeA15b8Z fUc1cwYjKBPWiy/UwJwo8P//usXj8NX6FUm0I= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:16:35 -0400 From: "Bob Copeland" To: "Jiri Slaby" Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Ath5k: fix beacon-update deadlock Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, "Johannes Berg" , "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <1216811855-9387-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1216811855-9387-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: eb67c5d5f6a40da8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Commit 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65 introduced > AA deadlock -- ath5k_config_interface(); holds sc->lock > and it calls ath5k_beacon_update(); which tries to grab the > lock again. I already posted a patch for this a few days ago, did it get picked up? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com