Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:05:41 -0500
From: Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org>
To: Iago Abal <iago.abal@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Potential deadlock BUG in drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c
 (Linux 4.9)
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Iago Abal wrote:
> This still looks like a deadlock bug to me, could someone take a look
> as well and confirm? I will help preparing a patch if needed.

The short answer:  yes, it deadlocks.

I'll be glad to review patches (this code is pretty tricky, but I=20
believe the deadlock got introduced/exposed by different code changes)
but unfortunately my last move killed the hardware capable of=20
accepting my SDIO CW1200 dongles.

Hmm, might be worth trolling ebay or something.

 - Solomon
--=20
Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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