Re: d80211 deadlock with wpa_supplicant and rmmod

Hello,
First of all I'm fairly new to this list (in all, this is my first
message), so please be gentle.. I promise I will try not to waste your
precious time.

I believe we have a deadlock in d80211.

I have it too. But I'm using iwl3945 driver, in-kernel mac80211, and a
gentoo kernel (basically a patched vanilla-2.6.22.1). My machine is a
x86_64 core 2 duo.

The following triggers it on my 2way SMT machine with preempt.

modprobe bcm43xx-d80211
add sta0
ifconfig sta0 up
start wpa_supplicant on the interface
rmmod bcm43xx-d80211

After that rmmod hangs spinning and wpa_supplicant
stays in D state.

If I first kill wpa_supplicant and then rmmod the module,
it does not deadlock.

I can trigger this way:

modprobe iwl3945
ifconfig wlan0 up
start wpa_supplicant
do some wpa_supplicant work (for instance issue a scan)
stop wpa_supplicant

Then it will deadlock (that is, wpa_supplicant will refuse to be
killed). The same thing happens if I try to modprobe the module out
(modprobe will "hang spinning" as you said). I have to ultimately
hard-shutdown my machine to bring it back to normal.

Below is sysrq-t output. It looks like it's related to rtnl_mutex.

(...)

I'm sorry for my inexperience, but I have no idea on which more data
to provide you. I will gladly help running any tests you would find
appropriate.

--
Greetings Michael.

Cheers,
  Renato Caldas