ath10k: drain tx before restarting hw

This makes sure no further tx requests are
submitted to HTT before driver teardown.

This should prevent invalid pointer/NULL
dereference on htt tx pool in ath10k_htt_tx() in
some cases of heavy traffic.

kvalo: remove the WARN_ON() if conf_mutex is held

Reported-By: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Michal Kazior 2014-05-26 12:46:03 +03:00 committed by Kalle Valo
parent c5058f5b82
commit bca7bafbe2

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@ -2289,9 +2289,19 @@ static void ath10k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
ath10k_tx_htt(ar, skb);
}
/*
* Initialize various parameters with default vaules.
*/
/* Must not be called with conf_mutex held as workers can use that also. */
static void ath10k_drain_tx(struct ath10k *ar)
{
/* make sure rcu-protected mac80211 tx path itself is drained */
synchronize_net();
ath10k_offchan_tx_purge(ar);
ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_purge(ar);
cancel_work_sync(&ar->offchan_tx_work);
cancel_work_sync(&ar->wmi_mgmt_tx_work);
}
void ath10k_halt(struct ath10k *ar)
{
struct ath10k_vif *arvif;
@ -2307,8 +2317,6 @@ void ath10k_halt(struct ath10k *ar)
del_timer_sync(&ar->scan.timeout);
ath10k_reset_scan((unsigned long)ar);
ath10k_offchan_tx_purge(ar);
ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_purge(ar);
ath10k_peer_cleanup_all(ar);
ath10k_core_stop(ar);
ath10k_hif_power_down(ar);
@ -2394,6 +2402,13 @@ static int ath10k_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
struct ath10k *ar = hw->priv;
int ret = 0;
/*
* This makes sense only when restarting hw. It is harmless to call
* uncoditionally. This is necessary to make sure no HTT/WMI tx
* commands will be submitted while restarting.
*/
ath10k_drain_tx(ar);
mutex_lock(&ar->conf_mutex);
switch (ar->state) {
@ -2481,6 +2496,8 @@ static void ath10k_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
struct ath10k *ar = hw->priv;
ath10k_drain_tx(ar);
mutex_lock(&ar->conf_mutex);
if (ar->state != ATH10K_STATE_OFF) {
ath10k_halt(ar);
@ -2488,10 +2505,6 @@ static void ath10k_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
}
mutex_unlock(&ar->conf_mutex);
ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_purge(ar);
cancel_work_sync(&ar->offchan_tx_work);
cancel_work_sync(&ar->wmi_mgmt_tx_work);
cancel_work_sync(&ar->restart_work);
}