Re: [34-longterm 029/247] iwlagn: enable only rfkill interrupt whendevice is down

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Fri Jun 24 2011 - 08:26:21 EST


On 11-06-24 04:16 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:17:52PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> -------------------
>> This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
>> If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
>> -------------------
>>
>> commit 554d1d027b19265c4aa3f718b3126d2b86e09a08 upstream.
>>
>> Since commit 6cd0b1cb872b3bf9fc5de4536404206ab74bafdd "iwlagn: fix
>> hw-rfkill while the interface is down", we enable interrupts when
>> device is not ready to receive them. However hardware, when it is in
>> some inconsistent state, can generate other than rfkill interrupts
>> and crash the system. I can reproduce crash with "kernel BUG at
>> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c:1010!" message, when forcing
>> firmware restarts.
>>
>> To fix only enable rfkill interrupt when down device and after probe.
>> I checked patch on laptop with 5100 device, rfkill change is still
>> passed to user space when device is down.
>
> This needs follow up:
>
> commit 3dd823e6b86407aed1a025041d8f1df77e43a9c8
> Author: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun Feb 6 09:29:45 2011 -0800
>
> iwlagn: Re-enable RF_KILL interrupt when down
>
> I'm not sure if that commit is included in the patch series.
>
> Stanislaw

Thanks for the review; the 3dd823e commit was already in the
series (sent as 049/247) fortunately.

Paul.
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