Hi Johannes,

> On Jun 15, 2018, at 7:30 AM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 11:09 +0000, McGinn, Dan wrote:
>> Hi, I'm newly trying out Intel iwd daemon but I experience regular kernel 
>> errors in 4.17, although WPA2-PSK connection remains stable.  These errors 
>> don't seem to be experienced with wpa_supplicant.  The errors reliably 
>> appear around the following events:
>> netdev_unicast_notify()
>> netdev_control_port_frame_event()
>> netdev_set_rekey_offload()
>> netdev_set_gtk()
>> 
>> @Denkenz in IRC helpfully suggests Johannes could follow the finger of 
>> suspicion to this commit:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=911806491425d79107cadddbde11b42bbdfe38c8
> 
> It's his code ;-)

Right, but you’re much more aware of all the locking issues than I am.

> 
> Clearly this comes from cfg80211 without any locking other than rtnl, so
> you don't have preemption disabled. That's the minimum needed to get rid
> of the warning you found.

In my defense, I did ask you whether there are any potential locking issues in 
the RFC and you didn’t think there were any.

I posted a fix for this.  Could you please review?

Regards,
-Denis

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