While draining the txq in flush, the buffers can be added into the tx queue by tx_tasklet which leads to unneccesary chip reset.
This issue was originially found with AR9382 and running heavy uplink udp traffic with higher bandwidth and doing frequent bgscan. Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c index c3dbf26..efdafd2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c @@ -2261,6 +2261,7 @@ static void ath9k_flush(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool drop) struct ath_softc *sc = hw->priv; int timeout = 200; /* ms */ int i, j; + bool drain_txq; mutex_lock(&sc->mutex); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&sc->tx_complete_work); @@ -2286,7 +2287,10 @@ static void ath9k_flush(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, bool drop) } ath9k_ps_wakeup(sc); - if (!ath_drain_all_txq(sc, false)) + spin_lock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock); + drain_txq = ath_drain_all_txq(sc, false); + spin_unlock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock); + if (!drain_txq) ath_reset(sc, false); ath9k_ps_restore(sc); ieee80211_wake_queues(hw); -- 1.7.5 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
