linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.12 417/700] wil6210: remove erroneous wiphy locking

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Message-Id: <20210712061020.735451219@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:08:20 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.12 417/700] wil6210: remove erroneous wiphy locking

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit 8f78caa2264ece71c2e207cba023f28ab6665138 ]

We already hold the wiphy lock in all cases when we get
here, so this would deadlock, remove the erroneous locking.

Fixes: a05829a7222e ("cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210426212929.83f1de07c2cd.I630a2a00eff185ba0452324b3d3f645e01128a95@changeid
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
index 6746fd206d2a..1ff2679963f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/cfg80211.c
@@ -2842,9 +2842,7 @@ void wil_p2p_wdev_free(struct wil6210_priv *wil)
 	wil->radio_wdev = wil->main_ndev->ieee80211_ptr;
 	mutex_unlock(&wil->vif_mutex);
 	if (p2p_wdev) {
-		wiphy_lock(wil->wiphy);
 		cfg80211_unregister_wdev(p2p_wdev);
-		wiphy_unlock(wil->wiphy);
 		kfree(p2p_wdev);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.30.2