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Commit 32c1628f authored by Christian Lamparter's avatar Christian Lamparter Committed by John W. Linville
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ar9170: fix hang on stop


This patch fixes a locking problem which freezes the network core.

The deadlock goes as follows:
- ar9170_op_stop - is called
1. change the state to IDLE
2. > take the MUTEX <
3. cancel_SYNC all pending work, which means
    "block until a work_struct's callback has terminated"
=>  if filter_config_work was queued it tries to get the MUTEX,
       before checking the device state...

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 807e3739
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