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When an RX BA session is started by the driver, and it has to tell
mac80211 about it, the corresponding bit in tid_rx_manage_offl gets
set and the BA session work is scheduled. Upon testing this bit, it
will call __ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session(), thus deadlocking as it
already holds the ampdu_mlme.mtx, which that acquires again.
Fix this by adding ___ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session(), a version of
the function that requires the mutex already held.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 699cb58c8a ("mac80211: manage RX BA session offload without SKB queue")
Reported-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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