kern/140036: [iwn] [lor] lock order reversal with iwn0_com_lock and iwn0 softc lock

Bernhard Schmidt bschmidt at techwires.net
Thu Oct 29 07:40:04 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR kern/140036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, kaduk at mit.edu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/140036: [iwn] [lor] lock order reversal with iwn0_com_lock and iwn0 softc lock
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:19:44 +0100

 Hi,
 
 Removing the IWN_LOCK(sc) leads to races when calling iwn_cmd(). It's better 
 to drop the IEEE80211_LOCK(ic). I do have a patch in test which hopefully will 
 hit the tree soon.
 
 --
 Bernhard


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