Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:59438 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752054AbYHDIG6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:06:58 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so932386fgg.17 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:06:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4896B89C.9060901@gmail.com> (sfid-20080804_100702_748400_32C8520D) Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:06:52 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Young CC: Bob Copeland , Andrew Morton , Pekka Enberg , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix References: <20080801074014.GA3341@darkstar> <4892C2CA.7010003@gmail.com> <4892C359.9000304@cs.helsinki.fi> <20080801011415.ff4821a3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dave Young napsal(a): > 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. Could you provide any logs regarding this, please?