| commit | 368d06f5b0eefcbf37d677d3b65381310a251f03 | |
| author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | |
| Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:40:59 +0000 (16 15:40 -0400) | ||
| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | |
| Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:37:20 +0000 (30 15:37 -0400) | ||
| tree | e8e05e1e6a34583f31203c29c03dcf9f6c036aeb | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | c8406ea8fa1adde8dc5400127281d497bbcdb84a | commitdiff |
wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutex
Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while
holding this spinlock. The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also
enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of
cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while
holding this spinlock. The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also
enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of
cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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