Hi Hans,

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 04:55:00PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

From: Fabio Aiuto <redacted>

when turning off a connection, lockdep complains with the
following warning (a modprobe has been done but the same
happens with a disconnection from NetworkManager,
it's enough to trigger a cfg80211_disconnect call):

[  682.855867] ======================================================
[  682.855877] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  682.855887] 5.14.0-rc6+ #16 Tainted: G         C OE
[  682.855898] ------------------------------------------------------
[  682.855906] modprobe/1770 is trying to acquire lock:
[  682.855916] ffffb6d000332b00 (&pxmitpriv->lock){+.-.}-{2:2},
		at: rtw_free_stainfo+0x52/0x4a0 [r8723bs]
[  682.856073]
               but task is already holding lock:
[  682.856081] ffffb6d0003336a8 (&pstapriv->sta_hash_lock){+.-.}-{2:2},
		at: rtw_free_assoc_resources+0x48/0x110 [r8723bs]
[  682.856207]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  682.856215]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

<snip>

thank you for working on this, at a first look
the patch series looks good.

I will test it tomorrow.

Thank you,

fabio