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
======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
3.3.8 #3 Tainted: G O
-------------------------------------------------------
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){+.+...}, at: [<81646828>] set_regdom+0x710/0x808 [cfg80211]
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #2 (reg_regdb_search_mutex){+.+...}:
[<800a8384>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x88
[<802950a8>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x31c
[<81645778>] is_world_regdom+0x9f8/0xc74 [cfg80211]
-> #1 (reg_mutex#2){+.+...}:
[<800a8384>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x88
[<802950a8>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x31c
[<8164539c>] is_world_regdom+0x61c/0xc74 [cfg80211]
-> #0 (cfg80211_mutex){+.+...}:
[<800a77b8>] __lock_acquire+0x10d4/0x17bc
[<800a8384>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x88
[<802950a8>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x31c
[<816468a4>] set_regdom+0x78c/0x808 [cfg80211]
other info that might help us debug this:
Chain exists of:
cfg80211_mutex --> reg_mutex#2 --> reg_regdb_search_mutex
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(reg_regdb_search_mutex);
lock(reg_mutex#2);
lock(reg_regdb_search_mutex);
lock(cfg80211_mutex);
*** DEADLOCK ***
3 locks held by kworker/0:1/235:
#0: (events){.+.+..}, at: [<80089a00>] process_one_work+0x230/0x460
#1: (reg_regdb_work){+.+...}, at: [<80089a00>] process_one_work+0x230/0x460
#2: (reg_regdb_search_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<81646828>] set_regdom+0x710/0x808 [cfg80211]
stack backtrace:
Call Trace:
[<80290fd4>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34
[<80291bc4>] print_circular_bug+0x2ac/0x2d8
[<800a77b8>] __lock_acquire+0x10d4/0x17bc
[<800a8384>] lock_acquire+0x60/0x88
[<802950a8>] mutex_lock_nested+0x54/0x31c
[<816468a4>] set_regdom+0x78c/0x808 [cfg80211]
Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tested-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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