4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit dfd4b08cf44f27587e2053e006e43a1603328006 ]
Even if no ALIVE was received, the WRT data can still
be collected. Add this.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kauf...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coe...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c
index 2fa7ec466275..839010417241 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c
@@ -950,7 +950,20 @@ int iwl_fw_dbg_collect_desc(struct iwl_fw_runtime *fwrt,
if (trigger)
delay = msecs_to_jiffies(le32_to_cpu(trigger->stop_delay));
- if (WARN(fwrt->trans->state == IWL_TRANS_NO_FW,
+ /*
+ * If the loading of the FW completed successfully, the next step is to
+ * get the SMEM config data. Thus, if fwrt->smem_cfg.num_lmacs is non
+ * zero, the FW was already loaded successully. If the state is "NO_FW"
+ * in such a case - WARN and exit, since FW may be dead. Otherwise, we
+ * can try to collect the data, since FW might just not be fully
+ * loaded (no "ALIVE" yet), and the debug data is accessible.
+ *
+ * Corner case: got the FW alive but crashed before getting the SMEM
+ * config. In such a case, due to HW access problems, we might
+ * collect garbage.
+ */
+ if (WARN((fwrt->trans->state == IWL_TRANS_NO_FW) &&
+ fwrt->smem_cfg.num_lmacs,
"Can't collect dbg data when FW isn't alive\n"))
return -EIO;
--
2.17.1
