From patchwork Mon Dec 14 17:28:19 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Greg KH X-Patchwork-Id: 343924 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0BEC4361B for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC56522582 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2440985AbgLNSvr (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:51:47 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46106 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2502249AbgLNRhh (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:37:37 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=permerror (bad message/signature format) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Sara Sharon , Luca Coelho , Kalle Valo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.9 045/105] iwlwifi: mvm: fix kernel panic in case of assert during CSA Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:28:19 +0100 Message-Id: <20201214172557.450802629@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.29.2 In-Reply-To: <20201214172555.280929671@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20201214172555.280929671@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Sara Sharon [ Upstream commit fe56d05ee6c87f6a1a8c7267affd92c9438249cc ] During CSA, we briefly nullify the phy context, in __iwl_mvm_unassign_vif_chanctx. In case we have a FW assert right after it, it remains NULL though. We end up running into endless loop due to mac80211 trying repeatedly to move us to ASSOC state, and we keep returning -EINVAL. Later down the road we hit a kernel panic. Detect and avoid this endless loop. Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20201107104557.d64de2c17bff.Iedd0d2afa20a2aacba5259a5cae31cb3a119a4eb@changeid Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c index 34362dc0d4612..f2d65e8384105 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c @@ -3057,7 +3057,7 @@ static int iwl_mvm_mac_sta_state(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, /* this would be a mac80211 bug ... but don't crash */ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mvmvif->phy_ctxt)) - return -EINVAL; + return test_bit(IWL_MVM_STATUS_HW_RESTART_REQUESTED, &mvm->status) ? 0 : -EINVAL; /* * If we are in a STA removal flow and in DQA mode: