Emmanuel Grumbach
[email protected]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So as you indicated you were in location where none of your configured
>>>> networks were available. Flipping the rfkill switch in that situation is 
>>>> the
>>>> way to trigger the issue.
>>>
>>> So you certainly seem to be able to explain the behavior I saw under
>>> the circumstances they happened.
>>>
>>> I suspect the best thing to do is to just apply your patch. I may not
>>> be able to really test it much for the next few days anyway. Emmanuel?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry - I was a bit busy.
>> The patch seems wrong, we can't really call that function from the
>> rfkill interrupt - it will blow up.
>> The good news is that I could reproduce the bug based on what Arend
>> pointed. I totally missed the fact
>> that it was scheduled scan - thanks Arend for that.
>>
>> So the system I have here doesn't have HW rfkill so I had to implement
>> a hook that fakes it,
>> but I can't reproduce the problem.
>> I'll come up with a patch.
>
>
> Ok - Here is the patch:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
> index 384eefd..bbd8054 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c
> @@ -867,6 +867,9 @@ static bool iwl_mvm_set_hw_rfkill_state(struct
> iwl_op_mode *op_mode, bool state)
>         if (calibrating)
>                 iwl_abort_notification_waits(&mvm->notif_wait);
>
> +       if (state)
> +               mvm->scan_status = IWL_MVM_SCAN_NONE;
> +
>         /*
>          * Stop the device if we run OPERATIONAL firmware or if we are in the
>          * middle of the calibrations.
>
>
> I will send that for internal review, because I am not all that much
> familiar with this and I want the guy who wrote that code to take a
> look before I send a pull request, but that should help.
>
Nah this is bad...

I have a correct patch - pull request on the way.
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