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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

The recent scan overhaul broke locking
because now we can jump to code that
attempts to unlock, while we don't have
the mutex held. Fix this by holding the
mutex around all the relevant code.

Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 net/mac80211/scan.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/scan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/scan.c
@@ -686,8 +686,6 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_str
 		goto out_complete;
 	}
 
-	mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
-
 	/*
 	 * as long as no delay is required advance immediately
 	 * without scheduling a new work
@@ -718,6 +716,7 @@ void ieee80211_scan_work(struct work_str
 	} while (next_delay == 0);
 
 	ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(&local->hw, &local->scan_work, next_delay);
+	mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
 	return;
 
 out_complete: