Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.173]:63194 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752432AbYHANnG (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:43:06 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so1440274wfd.4 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: (sfid-20080801_154310_970397_A167421F) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:43:05 -0400 From: "Bob Copeland" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix Cc: "Pekka Enberg" , "Jiri Slaby" , "Dave Young" , 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: <20080801011415.ff4821a3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com