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authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>2011-01-25 14:08:40 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-01-27 16:41:08 -0500
commit203043f579ece44bb30291442cd56332651dd37d (patch)
treeaa219eadbff45abf09011f595fa27febb6152ee7 /drivers/net
parentc9234a662e38309d6fe272ad80e6cdb8d24654f0 (diff)
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ath9k: fix race conditions when stop device
We do not kill any scheduled tasklets when stopping device, that may cause usage of resources after free. Moreover we enable interrupts in tasklet function, so we could potentially end with interrupts enabled when driver is not ready to receive them. I think patch should fix Ben's kernel crash from: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=129438358921501&w=2 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c5
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
index 767d8b86f1e1..b3254a3484a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
@@ -598,8 +598,6 @@ err_btcoex:
err_queues:
ath9k_hw_deinit(ah);
err_hw:
- tasklet_kill(&sc->intr_tq);
- tasklet_kill(&sc->bcon_tasklet);
kfree(ah);
sc->sc_ah = NULL;
@@ -807,9 +805,6 @@ static void ath9k_deinit_softc(struct ath_softc *sc)
ath9k_hw_deinit(sc->sc_ah);
- tasklet_kill(&sc->intr_tq);
- tasklet_kill(&sc->bcon_tasklet);
-
kfree(sc->sc_ah);
sc->sc_ah = NULL;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
index c79c97be6cd4..ace9f066fa20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1309,6 +1309,9 @@ static void ath9k_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
spin_lock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock);
+ /* prevent tasklets to enable interrupts once we disable them */
+ ah->imask &= ~ATH9K_INT_GLOBAL;
+
/* make sure h/w will not generate any interrupt
* before setting the invalid flag. */
ath9k_hw_disable_interrupts(ah);
@@ -1326,6 +1329,12 @@ static void ath9k_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
spin_unlock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock);
+ /* we can now sync irq and kill any running tasklets, since we already
+ * disabled interrupts and not holding a spin lock */
+ synchronize_irq(sc->irq);
+ tasklet_kill(&sc->intr_tq);
+ tasklet_kill(&sc->bcon_tasklet);
+
ath9k_ps_restore(sc);
sc->ps_idle = true;
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