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linux/net/core
Johannes Berg a160ee69c6 wext: let get_wireless_stats() sleep
A number of drivers (recently including cfg80211-based ones)
assume that all wireless handlers, including statistics, can
sleep and they often also implicitly assume that the rtnl is
held around their invocation. This is almost always true now
except when reading from sysfs:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 10450, name: head
  2 locks held by head/10450:
   #0:  (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c10ceb99>] sysfs_read_file+0x24/0xf4
   #1:  (dev_base_lock){++.?..}, at: [<c12844ee>] wireless_show+0x1a/0x4c
  Pid: 10450, comm: head Not tainted 2.6.32-rc3 #1
  Call Trace:
   [<c102301c>] __might_sleep+0xf0/0xf7
   [<c1324355>] mutex_lock_nested+0x1a/0x33
   [<f8cea53b>] wdev_lock+0xd/0xf [cfg80211]
   [<f8cea58f>] cfg80211_wireless_stats+0x45/0x12d [cfg80211]
   [<c13118d6>] get_wireless_stats+0x16/0x1c
   [<c12844fe>] wireless_show+0x2a/0x4c

Fix this by using the rtnl instead of dev_base_lock.

Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-05 02:22:23 -07:00
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datagram.c net: skb ftracer - add tracepoint to skb_copy_datagram_iovec (v3) 2009-08-13 16:26:14 -07:00
dev_mcast.c
dev.c net: restore tx timestamping for accelerated vlans 2009-09-30 16:42:42 -07:00
drop_monitor.c net: drop_monitor: make last_rx timestamp private 2009-09-02 14:37:45 -07:00
dst.c
ethtool.c net/ethtool: Add support for the ethtool feature to flash firmware image from a specified file. 2009-09-02 23:07:39 -07:00
fib_rules.c
filter.c
flow.c
gen_estimator.c net: restore gnet_stats_basic to previous definition 2009-08-17 21:33:49 -07:00
gen_stats.c net: restore gnet_stats_basic to previous definition 2009-08-17 21:33:49 -07:00
iovec.c
kmap_skb.h
link_watch.c
Makefile
neighbour.c neigh: Convert garbage collection from softirq to workqueue 2009-08-02 18:35:16 -07:00
net_namespace.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-08-12 17:44:53 -07:00
net-sysfs.c wext: let get_wireless_stats() sleep 2009-10-05 02:22:23 -07:00
net-sysfs.h
net-traces.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
netevent.c
netpoll.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-09-02 00:32:56 -07:00
pktgen.c pktgen: restore nanosec delays 2009-10-04 21:08:58 -07:00
request_sock.c
rtnetlink.c net_sched: reintroduce dev->qdisc for use by sch_api 2009-09-06 02:07:03 -07:00
scm.c
skb_dma_map.c
skbuff.c net: remove unused skb->do_not_encrypt 2009-07-24 15:05:31 -04:00
sock.c net: Fix sock_wfree() race 2009-09-30 16:20:38 -07:00
stream.c
sysctl_net_core.c
user_dma.c net/core/user_dma.c: Use frag list abstraction interfaces. 2009-06-09 00:19:10 -07:00
utils.c