4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Anilkumar Kolli <[email protected]> commit 4ad24a9d83bd4bf0a85e95bf144e18d3fda4fbf1 upstream. It is observed that while loading and unloading ath10k modules in an infinite loop, before ath10k_core_start() completion HTT rx frames are received, while processing these frames, dereferencing the arvifs list code is getting hit before initilizing the arvifs list, causing a kernel panic. This patch initilizes the arvifs list before initilizing htt. Fixes the below issue: [<bf88b058>] (ath10k_htt_rx_pktlog_completion_handler+0x278/0xd08 [ath10k_core]) [<bf88b058>] (ath10k_htt_rx_pktlog_completion_handler [ath10k_core]) [<bf88c0dc>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0x5f4/0xeb0 [ath10k_core]) [<bf88c0dc>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task [ath10k_core]) [<c0234100>] (tasklet_action+0x8c/0xec) [<c0234100>] (tasklet_action) [<c02337c0>] (__do_softirq+0xf8/0x228) [<c02337c0>] (__do_softirq) [<c0233920>] (run_ksoftirqd+0x30/0x90) Code: e5954ad8 e2899008 e1540009 0a00000d (e5943008) ---[ end trace 71de5c2e011dbf56 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Fixes: 500ff9f9389d ("ath10k: implement chanctx API") Signed-off-by: Anilkumar Kolli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c index 59496a9..b67cdec 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c @@ -1214,6 +1214,10 @@ int ath10k_core_start(struct ath10k *ar, enum ath10k_firmware_mode mode) goto err_hif_stop; } + ar->free_vdev_map = (1LL << ar->max_num_vdevs) - 1; + + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ar->arvifs); + /* we don't care about HTT in UTF mode */ if (mode == ATH10K_FIRMWARE_MODE_NORMAL) { status = ath10k_htt_setup(&ar->htt); @@ -1227,10 +1231,6 @@ int ath10k_core_start(struct ath10k *ar, enum ath10k_firmware_mode mode) if (status) goto err_hif_stop; - ar->free_vdev_map = (1LL << ar->max_num_vdevs) - 1; - - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ar->arvifs); - return 0; err_hif_stop: -- 2.7.4
