staging: brcm80211: fix rtnl_lock issue when bringing down brcmfmac

When bringing down the netdevice interface a deadlock occurred
sporadically due to the rtnl_lock being held by a task that was
waiting for another task trying to get the lock. This patch fixes
that issue.

Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Roland Vossen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Arend van Spriel
2011-08-23 13:10:14 -07:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 60be7ec509
commit 183eeb985a
@@ -3189,7 +3189,14 @@ static void brcmf_term_iscan(struct brcmf_cfg80211_priv *cfg_priv)
if (cfg_priv->iscan_on && iscan->tsk) {
iscan->state = WL_ISCAN_STATE_IDLE;
send_sig(SIGTERM, iscan->tsk, 1);
/*
* The iscan task may want to acquire the rtnl_lock
* so release it here upon stopping the task.
*/
rtnl_unlock();
kthread_stop(iscan->tsk);
rtnl_lock();
iscan->tsk = NULL;
/* Abort iscan running in FW */