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Subject: Re: pull-request: mac80211 2021-01-18.2
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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        luciano.coelho@intel.com
Date:   Sat, 23 Jan 2021 23:15:50 +0100
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On Sat, 2021-01-23 at 22:31 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> So I'm afraid that I have some bad news about this patch, it fixes
> the RCU warning which I reported:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20210104170713.66956-1-hdegoede@redhat.com/
> 
> But it introduces a deadlock. See:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/d839ab62-e4bc-56f0-d861-f172bf19c4b3@redhat.com/
> 
> for details. Note we really should fix this new deadlock before 5.11
> is released. This is worse then the RCU warning which this patch fixes.

Ouch. Thanks for the heads-up. I guess I'll revert both patches for now,
unless we can quickly figure out a way to get all these paths in order.

Thanks,
johannes