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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-06-10 16:50:29 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-06-10 13:28:41 -0400
commit2f0accc13520b2644b85f80aedce10d10d88b0ca (patch)
tree7c5ce603af5b3e3e738737f464684ce121cc7fdd
parent4e751843d406a4d0471c207872b9e24957de8357 (diff)
cfg80211: fix rfkill locking problem
rfkill currently requires a global lock within the rfkill_register() function, and holds that lock over calls to the set_block() methods. This means that we cannot hold a lock around rfkill_register() that we also require in set_block(), directly or indirectly. Fix cfg80211 to register rfkill outside the block locked by its global lock. Much of what cfg80211 does in the locked block doesn't need to be locked anyway. Reported-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/core.c19
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index 3b74b88e10a..d5850292b3d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -395,21 +395,23 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy)
/* check and set up bitrates */
ieee80211_set_bitrate_flags(wiphy);
- mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex);
-
- /* set up regulatory info */
- wiphy_update_regulatory(wiphy, NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE);
-
res = device_add(&drv->wiphy.dev);
if (res)
- goto out_unlock;
+ return res;
res = rfkill_register(drv->rfkill);
if (res)
goto out_rm_dev;
+ mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex);
+
+ /* set up regulatory info */
+ wiphy_update_regulatory(wiphy, NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_CORE);
+
list_add(&drv->list, &cfg80211_drv_list);
+ mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
+
/* add to debugfs */
drv->wiphy.debugfsdir =
debugfs_create_dir(wiphy_name(&drv->wiphy),
@@ -430,13 +432,10 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy)
cfg80211_debugfs_drv_add(drv);
- res = 0;
- goto out_unlock;
+ return 0;
out_rm_dev:
device_del(&drv->wiphy.dev);
- out_unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
return res;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(wiphy_register);