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From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
To: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>,
	GNU/Weeb Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>, Kalle Valo <[email protected]>,
	Linux Wireless Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	 netdev Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>,
	Yan-Hsuan Chuang <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Linux 5.18-rc1] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected at (rtw_ops_config, ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:46:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 08:26 +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> 
> [21860.955836]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> 
> [21860.955837]        CPU0                    CPU1
> [21860.955837]        ----                    ----
> [21860.955838]   lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
> [21860.955839]                                lock(&rtwdev->mutex);
> [21860.955840]                                lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
> [21860.955841]   lock(&rtwdev->mutex);
> [21860.955842]
>                   *** DEADLOCK ***
> 

The driver needs to fix this, cannot call ieee80211_iterate_interfaces()
inside a section locked this way. I _think_ this deadlock used to be
documented by it looks like that documentation got moved around or
something.

johannes

      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-11 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-04  6:47 [Linux 5.18-rc1] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected at (rtw_ops_config, ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap) Ammar Faizi
2022-04-07  1:26 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-04-11 14:46   ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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