Re: [REVERT] be6b38bcb175613f239e0b302607db346472c6b6.v2.6.34-rc3-406 oops with 4965AGN wireless

From: Guy, Wey-Yi
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 15:13:08 EST



On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 11:13 -0700, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:16:43AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> >
> > index 1bd2cd8..83c52a6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
> > @@ -2041,16 +2041,14 @@ static void iwl4965_rx_reply_tx(struct iwl_priv *priv,
> > tx_resp->failure_frame);
> >
> > freed = iwl_tx_queue_reclaim(priv, txq_id, index);
> > - if (qc && likely(sta_id != IWL_INVALID_STATION))
> > - priv->stations[sta_id].tid[tid].tfds_in_queue -= freed;
> > + iwl_free_tfds_in_queue(priv, sta_id, tid, freed);
>
> So what happens if we hit sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION and !txq->sched_retry?
>
> AFAICS, IWL_INVALID_STATION is 255 and priv->stations[] has only 32 elements.
> And code around that place is
> if (txq->sched_retry && unlikely(sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION)) {
> IWL_ERR(priv, "Station not known\n");
> return;
> }
> if (txq->sched_retry) {
> ....
> } else {
> ....
> the code modified in that chunk
> ....
> }
> so this removal of check for sta_id doesn't look apriori safe...
>
> I'm not familiar with that code and I don't have the hardware, so this is
> just from RTFS, but... might make sense to replace that call of
> iwl_free_tfds_in_queue with
>
> if (sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION)
> printk(KERN_ERR "buggered");
> else
> iwl_free_tfds_in_queue(priv, sta_id, tid, freed);
>
> and see if that helps and if printk gets triggered.

We can check for IWL_INVALID_STATION and print log, but need to check
for qc to make sure it is valid; maybe something like
if (qc && likely(sta_id != IWL_INVALID_STATION))
iwl_free_tfds_in_queue(priv, sta_id,
tid, freed);
else {
if (sta_id == IWL_INVALID_STATION)
IWL_ERR(priv, "invalid station"");
}

Wey



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