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

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Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:02:38 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
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

On 04/08/2008 04:29 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> 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.

Yeah, it is. I already replied to myself after getting to know about 
wireless-testing, but forgot to click "send". Thanks.
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