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authorVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>2010-06-23 06:49:21 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-06-23 15:28:42 -0400
commit6c3118e2305326743acb52250bcfd0d52389d9dc (patch)
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parentb6855772f4a22c4fbdd4fcaceff5c8a527035123 (diff)
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ath9k: Fix bug in starting ani
There are few places where ANI is started without checking if it is right to start. This might lead to a case where ani timer would be left undeleted and cause improper memory acccess during module unload. This bug is clearly exposed with paprd support where the driver detects tx hang and does a chip reset. During this reset ani is (re)started without checking if it needs to be started. This would leave a timer scheduled even after all the resources are freed and cause a panic. This patch introduces a bit in sc_flags to indicate if ani needs to be started in sw_scan_start() and ath_reset(). This would fix the following panic. This issue is easily seen with ar9003 + paprd. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000003f38 [<ffffffff81075391>] ? __queue_work+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff8106afaa>] run_timer_softirq+0x17a/0x370 [<ffffffff81088be8>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x48/0x110 [<ffffffff81061f69>] __do_softirq+0xb9/0x1f0 [<ffffffff810ba060>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x50/0x160 [<ffffffff8100af5c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [<ffffffff8100c9f5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0 [<ffffffff81061e25>] irq_exit+0x85/0x90 [<ffffffff8155e095>] do_IRQ+0x75/0xf0 [<ffffffff815570d3>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11 <EOI> [<ffffffff812fd67b>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0xe4/0x119 [<ffffffff812fd674>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0xdd/0x119 [<ffffffff81441c87>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xa7/0x140 [<ffffffff81008da3>] cpu_idle+0xb3/0x110 [<ffffffff81550722>] start_secondary+0x1ee/0x1f5 Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c11
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
index fbb7dec6ddeb..5ea87736a6ae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ void ath_deinit_leds(struct ath_softc *sc);
#define SC_OP_TSF_RESET BIT(11)
#define SC_OP_BT_PRIORITY_DETECTED BIT(12)
#define SC_OP_BT_SCAN BIT(13)
+#define SC_OP_ANI_RUN BIT(14)
/* Powersave flags */
#define PS_WAIT_FOR_BEACON BIT(0)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
index abfa0493236f..1e2a68ea9355 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -336,6 +336,10 @@ set_timer:
static void ath_start_ani(struct ath_common *common)
{
unsigned long timestamp = jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies);
+ struct ath_softc *sc = (struct ath_softc *) common->priv;
+
+ if (!(sc->sc_flags & SC_OP_ANI_RUN))
+ return;
common->ani.longcal_timer = timestamp;
common->ani.shortcal_timer = timestamp;
@@ -872,11 +876,13 @@ static void ath9k_bss_assoc_info(struct ath_softc *sc,
/* Reset rssi stats */
sc->sc_ah->stats.avgbrssi = ATH_RSSI_DUMMY_MARKER;
+ sc->sc_flags |= SC_OP_ANI_RUN;
ath_start_ani(common);
} else {
ath_print(common, ATH_DBG_CONFIG, "Bss Info DISASSOC\n");
common->curaid = 0;
/* Stop ANI */
+ sc->sc_flags &= ~SC_OP_ANI_RUN;
del_timer_sync(&common->ani.timer);
}
}
@@ -1478,8 +1484,10 @@ static int ath9k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC ||
- vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) {
+ sc->sc_flags |= SC_OP_ANI_RUN;
ath_start_ani(common);
+ }
out:
mutex_unlock(&sc->mutex);
@@ -1500,6 +1508,7 @@ static void ath9k_remove_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
mutex_lock(&sc->mutex);
/* Stop ANI */
+ sc->sc_flags &= ~SC_OP_ANI_RUN;
del_timer_sync(&common->ani.timer);
/* Reclaim beacon resources */