netdev - Re: [PATCH] wext: let get_wireless

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:22:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	linville@...driver.com, miles.lane@...il.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wext: let get_wireless_stats() sleep

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:15:59 +0200

> A number of drivers (recently including cfg80211-based ones)
> assume that all wireless handlers, including statistics, can
> sleep and they often also implicitly assume that the rtnl is
> held around their invocation. This is almost always true now
> except when reading from sysfs:
 ...
> Fix this by using the rtnl instead of dev_base_lock.
> 
> Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

Fair enough, applied, thanks!
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