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From: Greg KH on 30 Mar 2010 20:00
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Michael Buesch <mb(a)bu3sch.de>

commit 96869a39399269a776a94812e9fff3d38b47d838 upstream

The TKIP key update callback is called from the RX path, where the driver
mutex is already locked. This results in a circular locking bug.
Avoid this by removing the lock.

Johannes noted that there is a separate bug: The callback still breaks on SDIO
hardware, because SDIO hardware access needs to sleep, but we are not allowed
to sleep in the callback due to mac80211's RCU locking.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb(a)bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger(a)lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: kecsa(a)kutfo.hit.bme.hu
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville(a)tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>

---
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -852,19 +852,16 @@ static void b43_op_update_tkip_key(struc
if (B43_WARN_ON(!modparam_hwtkip))
return;

- mutex_lock(&wl->mutex);
-
+ /* This is only called from the RX path through mac80211, where
+ * our mutex is already locked. */
+ B43_WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&wl->mutex));
dev = wl->current_dev;
- if (!dev || b43_status(dev) < B43_STAT_INITIALIZED)
- goto out_unlock;
+ B43_WARN_ON(!dev || b43_status(dev) < B43_STAT_INITIALIZED);

keymac_write(dev, index, NULL); /* First zero out mac to avoid race */

rx_tkip_phase1_write(dev, index, iv32, phase1key);
keymac_write(dev, index, addr);
-
-out_unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex);
}

static void do_key_write(struct b43_wldev *dev,


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