Return-path: Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.191]:60396 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754162AbYHDDCw (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:02:52 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b6so452563tic.23 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: (sfid-20080804_050256_204273_0C26242E) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:02:49 +0800 From: "Dave Young" To: "Bob Copeland" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Pekka Enberg" , "Jiri Slaby" , johannes@sipsolutions.net, tomasw@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linville@tuxdriver.com, stable@kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <20080801074014.GA3341@darkstar> <4892C2CA.7010003@gmail.com> <4892C359.9000304@cs.helsinki.fi> <20080801011415.ff4821a3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:03:37 +0300 Pekka Enberg wrote: >> >>> Jiri Slaby wrote: >>> > Dave Young napsal(a): >>> >> In the drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c, there's recursive locking of >>> >> sc->lock >>> > >>> > Should be fixed already: >>> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc05116ab33d30342e2b4b1bcc6d6e1184e9df97 >>> >>> I guess that didn't make it to -stable? >> >> (cc stable!) > > Not to worry, the commit that introduced it was > 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65, which as far as I can tell > came in after 2.6.26. Strange, I get system stuck in 2.6.26 as well, so there might be other bugs. > > -- > Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com > -- Regards dave