Commit a85d0d7f authored by Luis R. Rodriguez's avatar Luis R. Rodriguez Committed by John W. Linville
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cfg80211: fix possible circular lock on reg_regdb_search()

When call_crda() is called we kick off a witch hunt search
for the same regulatory domain on our internal regulatory
database and that work gets kicked off on a workqueue, this
is done while the cfg80211_mutex is held. If that workqueue
kicks off it will first lock reg_regdb_search_mutex and
later cfg80211_mutex but to ensure two CPUs will not contend
against cfg80211_mutex the right thing to do is to have the
reg_regdb_search() wait until the cfg80211_mutex is let go.

The lockdep report is pasted below.

cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain

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[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
3.3.8 #3 Tainted: G           O
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kworker/0:1/235 is trying to acquire lock:
 (cfg80211_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<816468a4>] set_regdom+0x78c/0x808 [cfg80211]

but task is already holding lock:
 (reg_regdb_search_mutex){+.+...}, a...
parent 78c04c0b
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