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authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>2009-11-07 18:37:37 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-11-10 16:21:12 -0500
commit8f611288c8db0c89447856c4c8970bb7ee535448 (patch)
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parentd8e235227899474976302cf272e5c2b756eb32de (diff)
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b43: work around a locking issue in ->set_tim()
ops->set_tim() must be atomic, so b43 trying to acquire a mutex leads to a kernel crash. This patch trades an easy to trigger crash in AP mode for an unlikely race condition. According to Michael, the real fix would be to allow set_tim() to sleep, since b43 is not the only driver that needs to sleep in all callbacks. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
index 86f35827f008..098dda1a67c1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -4521,9 +4521,8 @@ static int b43_op_beacon_set_tim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
{
struct b43_wl *wl = hw_to_b43_wl(hw);
- mutex_lock(&wl->mutex);
+ /* FIXME: add locking */
b43_update_templates(wl);
- mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex);
return 0;
}