Re: Potential deadlock BUG in drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c (Linux 4.9)

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Iago Abal wrote: > This still looks like a deadlock bug to me, could someone take a look > as well and confirm? I will help preparing a patch if needed. The short answer: yes, it deadlocks. I'll be glad to review patches (this code is pretty tricky, but

Re: Potential deadlock BUG in drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c (Linux 4.9)

Hi, This still looks like a deadlock bug to me, could someone take a look as well and confirm? I will help preparing a patch if needed. Thanks, -- iago On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Iago Abal wrote: > Hi, > > With the help of a static bug finder (EBA - >

Potential deadlock BUG in drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c (Linux 4.9)

Hi, With the help of a static bug finder (EBA - https://github.com/models-team/eba) I have found a potential deadlock in drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/ sta.c. This happens due to a recursive mutex_lock on `priv->conf_mutex'. If this is indeed a bug, I will be happy to help with a patch. A