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Bjorn Andersson 39efc7cc7c wcn36xx: Introduce mutual exclusion of fw configuration
As the association status changes the driver needs to configure the
hardware. This is done based on information in the "sta" acquired by
ieee80211_find_sta(), which requires the caller to ensure that the "sta"
is valid while its being used; generally by entering an rcu read
section.

But the operations acting on the "sta" has to communicate with the
firmware and may therefor sleep, resulting in the following report:

[   31.418190] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
kernel/locking/mutex.c:238
[   31.425919] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 34, name:
kworker/u8:1
[   31.434609] CPU: 0 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170607+ #993
[   31.441002] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC
(DT)
[   31.450380] Workqueue: phy0 ieee80211_iface_work
[   31.457226] Call trace:
[   31.461830] [<ffffff8008088c58>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x260
[   31.464004] [<ffffff8008088f7c>] show_stack+0x14/0x20
[   31.469557] [<ffffff8008392e70>] dump_stack+0x98/0xb8
[   31.474592] [<ffffff80080e4330>] ___might_sleep+0xf0/0x118
[   31.479626] [<ffffff80080e43a8>] __might_sleep+0x50/0x88
[   31.485010] [<ffffff80088ff9a4>] mutex_lock+0x24/0x60
[   31.490479] [<ffffff8008595c38>] wcn36xx_smd_set_link_st+0x30/0x130
[   31.495428] [<ffffff8008591ed8>] wcn36xx_bss_info_changed+0x148/0x448
[   31.501504] [<ffffff80088ab3c4>]
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0xbc/0x118
[   31.508102] [<ffffff80088f841c>] ieee80211_assoc_success+0x664/0x7f8
[   31.515220] [<ffffff80088e13d4>]
ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp+0x144/0x2d8
[   31.521555] [<ffffff80088e1e20>]
ieee80211_sta_rx_queued_mgmt+0x190/0x698
[   31.528239] [<ffffff80088bc44c>] ieee80211_iface_work+0x234/0x368
[   31.535011] [<ffffff80080d81ac>] process_one_work+0x1cc/0x340
[   31.541086] [<ffffff80080d8368>] worker_thread+0x48/0x430
[   31.546814] [<ffffff80080de448>] kthread+0x108/0x138
[   31.552195] [<ffffff8008082ec0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50

In order to ensure that the "sta" remains alive (and consistent) for the
duration of bss_info_changed() mutual exclusion has to be ensured with
sta_remove().

This is done by introducing a mutex to cover firmware configuration
changes, which is made to also ensure mutual exclusion between other
operations changing the state or configuration of the firmware. With
this we can drop the rcu read lock.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
2017-08-08 14:08:17 +03:00
arch x86: mark kprobe templates as character arrays, not single characters 2017-07-20 11:34:47 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
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drivers wcn36xx: Introduce mutual exclusion of fw configuration 2017-08-08 14:08:17 +03:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs rxrpc: Move the packet.h include file into net/rxrpc/ 2017-07-21 11:00:20 +01:00
include qed: enhanced per queue max coalesce value. 2017-07-27 00:05:22 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
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kernel bpf: dev_map_alloc() shouldn't return NULL 2017-07-24 16:23:05 -07:00
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Linux kernel
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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.