The transceiver may fail under heavy traffic when a frame is transmitted
while receiving another frame.

This patch uses a mutex to separate the transmission and reception of
frames along with a secondary working queue to avoid a deadlock while
waiting for the transmission interrupt.

Signed-off-by: David Hauweele <da...@hauweele.net>
---
 drivers/net/ieee802154/mrf24j40.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/mrf24j40.c 
b/drivers/net/ieee802154/mrf24j40.c
index ede3ce4..1e3ddf3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/mrf24j40.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/mrf24j40.c
@@ -82,8 +82,10 @@ struct mrf24j40 {
        struct ieee802154_dev *dev;
 
        struct mutex buffer_mutex; /* only used to protect buf */
+       struct mutex txrx_mutex; /* avoid transmission while receiving a frame 
*/
        struct completion tx_complete;
        struct work_struct irqwork;
+       struct work_struct rxwork;
        u8 *buf; /* 3 bytes. Used for SPI single-register transfers. */
 };
 
@@ -353,6 +355,8 @@ static int mrf24j40_tx(struct ieee802154_dev *dev, struct 
sk_buff *skb)
        /* Set TXNACKREQ if the ACK bit is set in the packet. */
        if (skb->data[0] & IEEE802154_FC_ACK_REQ)
                val |= 0x4;
+
+       mutex_lock(&devrec->txrx_mutex);
        write_short_reg(devrec, REG_TXNCON, val);
 
        INIT_COMPLETION(devrec->tx_complete);
@@ -361,6 +365,9 @@ static int mrf24j40_tx(struct ieee802154_dev *dev, struct 
sk_buff *skb)
        ret = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
                                                &devrec->tx_complete,
                                                5 * HZ);
+
+       mutex_unlock(&devrec->txrx_mutex);
+
        if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS)
                goto err;
        if (ret == 0) {
@@ -535,6 +542,8 @@ static int mrf24j40_handle_rx(struct mrf24j40 *devrec)
        int ret = 0;
        struct sk_buff *skb;
 
+       mutex_lock(&devrec->txrx_mutex);
+
        /* Turn off reception of packets off the air. This prevents the
         * device from overwriting the buffer while we're reading it. */
        ret = read_short_reg(devrec, REG_BBREG1, &val);
@@ -575,6 +584,8 @@ out:
        val &= ~0x4; /* Clear RXDECINV */
        write_short_reg(devrec, REG_BBREG1, val);
 
+       mutex_unlock(&devrec->txrx_mutex);
+
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -616,12 +627,19 @@ static void mrf24j40_isrwork(struct work_struct *work)
 
        /* Check for Rx */
        if (intstat & 0x8)
-               mrf24j40_handle_rx(devrec);
+               schedule_work(&devrec->rxwork);
 
 out:
        enable_irq(devrec->spi->irq);
 }
 
+static void mrf24j40_rxwork(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+       struct mrf24j40 *devrec = container_of(work, struct mrf24j40, rxwork);
+
+       mrf24j40_handle_rx(devrec);
+}
+
 static int mrf24j40_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 {
        int ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -648,8 +666,10 @@ static int mrf24j40_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
                spi->max_speed_hz = MAX_SPI_SPEED_HZ;
 
        mutex_init(&devrec->buffer_mutex);
+       mutex_init(&devrec->txrx_mutex);
        init_completion(&devrec->tx_complete);
        INIT_WORK(&devrec->irqwork, mrf24j40_isrwork);
+       INIT_WORK(&devrec->rxwork, mrf24j40_rxwork);
        devrec->spi = spi;
        spi_set_drvdata(spi, devrec);
 
-- 
1.7.10.4


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