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Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when removing interface

From Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when removing interface
Date 2016-08-15 23:50 +0200
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On 15-8-2016 13:52, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 15 August 2016 at 12:57, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>>>
>>> Fixes: a63b09872c1d ("brcmfmac: delete interface directly in code that sent fw request")
>>> Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
>>>
>>> Kalle: I'm acking this as bugfix for 4.8 release.
>>
>> Ok. I'll wait few days for more comments before I apply this.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> 
>> (I assume you are talking only about patch 1)
> 
> Yes, I'll leave mutex vs. spinlock to the experts :)

Don't know who the experts are. Surely not me :-p

I made an uneducated design decision using a mutex for this. The
reasoning for using a regular spinlock make sense. So I will go and ack
that patch.

Regards,
Arend

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[BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when removing interface Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2016-08-15 11:50 +0200
  Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when  removing interface Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 12:50 +0200
    Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when removing interface Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-15 13:00 +0200
      Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when  removing interface Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2016-08-15 14:00 +0200
        Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when  removing interface Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2016-08-15 23:50 +0200
          Re: [BUGFIX PATCH 1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when  removing interface Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2016-08-16 04:30 +0200
  Re: [BUGFIX,  1/2] brcmfmac: Check rtnl_lock is locked when removing interface Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-24 15:20 +0200

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