The patch below does not apply to the .39-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 2f6fc351e6e8c1b6a95140e733607e32bc3a4322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rajkumar Manoharan <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:31:57 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: Fix drain txq failure in flush 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]> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]> 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); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
