Re: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix

From: Bob Copeland
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 09:43:21 EST


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:03:37 +0300 Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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