Re: [PATCH 2/2] iwlwifi: fix DVM boot regression in 5.12-rc

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Sat Mar 06 2021 - 14:54:29 EST


On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:50 PM Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No time_point op has been provided for DVM: check for NULL before
> calling, to fix the oops (blank screen booting non-modular kernel).
>
> Fixes: d01293154c0a ("iwlwifi: dbg: add op_mode callback for collecting debug data.")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

See "iwlwifi: avoid crash on unsupported debug collection" in [1].

- Sedat -

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers.git/commit/?id=4538c5ed0f7e892f1b643472e48146757d1e60c5

> ---
>
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-op-mode.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- 5.12-rc2/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-op-mode.h 2021-02-28 16:58:55.058425551 -0800
> +++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-op-mode.h 2021-03-05 20:59:14.156217412 -0800
> @@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ static inline void iwl_op_mode_time_poin
> enum iwl_fw_ini_time_point tp_id,
> union iwl_dbg_tlv_tp_data *tp_data)
> {
> - op_mode->ops->time_point(op_mode, tp_id, tp_data);
> + if (op_mode->ops->time_point)
> + op_mode->ops->time_point(op_mode, tp_id, tp_data);
> }
>
> #endif /* __iwl_op_mode_h__ */