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

On 15-8-2016 13:52, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

On 15 August 2016 at 12:57, Kalle Valo [off-list ref] wrote:

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Rafał Miłecki [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

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(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