linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: fix recursive locking in ieee80211_sta

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Message-Id: <1207664966.14253.26.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:29:26 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	linville@...driver.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: fix recursive locking in
	ieee80211_sta_expire


> ieee80211_sta_expire grabs local->sta_lock and calls sta_info_unlink
> which tries to grab the lock again. (make available) and use
> __sta_info_unlink variant instead.

A patch equivalent to this should already be in.

johannes

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