A crash upon booting that is caused by bcm43xx has been reported [1] and found to be due to a work queue being reinitialized while work on that queue is still pending. This fix modifies the shutdown of work queues and prevents periodic work from being requeued during shutdown. With this patch, no more crashes on reboot were observed by the original reporter. I do not get that particular failure on my system; however, when running a large number of ifdown/ifup sequences, my system would kernel panic with the 'caps lock' light blinking at roughly a 1 Hz rate. In addition, there were infrequent failures in the firmware that resulted in 'IRQ READY TIMEOUT' errors. With this patch, no more of the first type of failure occur, and incidence of the second type is greatly reduced. [1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8937 Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- John, This fix should be sent to 2.6.23. Once it it there, I'll send it on to -stable. Larry drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.h | 2 - drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_sysfs.c | 3 +- 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c @@ -3197,6 +3197,9 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handle unsigned long orig_trans_start = 0; mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex); + /* keep from doing and rearming periodic work if shutting down */ + if (bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_UNINIT) + goto unlock_mutex; if (unlikely(bcm->periodic_state % 60 == 0)) { /* Periodic work will take a long time, so we want it to * be preemtible. @@ -3242,14 +3245,10 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handle mmiowb(); bcm->periodic_state++; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bcm->irq_lock, flags); +unlock_mutex: mutex_unlock(&bcm->mutex); } -void bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm) -{ - cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&bcm->periodic_work); -} - void bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_setup(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm) { struct delayed_work *work = &bcm->periodic_work; @@ -3299,6 +3298,14 @@ static int bcm43xx_rng_init(struct bcm43 return err; } +void bcm43xx_cancel_work(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm) +{ + /* The system must be unlocked when this routine is entered. + * If not, the next 2 steps may deadlock */ + cancel_work_sync(&bcm->restart_work); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bcm->periodic_work); +} + static int bcm43xx_shutdown_all_wireless_cores(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm) { int ret = 0; @@ -3335,7 +3342,12 @@ static void bcm43xx_free_board(struct bc { bcm43xx_rng_exit(bcm); bcm43xx_sysfs_unregister(bcm); - bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(bcm); + + mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex); + bcm43xx_set_status(bcm, BCM43xx_STAT_UNINIT); + mutex_unlock(&(bcm)->mutex); + + bcm43xx_cancel_work(bcm); mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex); bcm43xx_shutdown_all_wireless_cores(bcm); @@ -4030,7 +4042,7 @@ static int bcm43xx_net_stop(struct net_d err = bcm43xx_disable_interrupts_sync(bcm); assert(!err); bcm43xx_free_board(bcm); - flush_scheduled_work(); + bcm43xx_cancel_work(bcm); return 0; } @@ -4162,9 +4174,9 @@ static void bcm43xx_chip_reset(struct wo struct bcm43xx_phyinfo *phy; int err = -ENODEV; + bcm43xx_cancel_work(bcm); mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex); if (bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED) { - bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(bcm); phy = bcm43xx_current_phy(bcm); err = bcm43xx_select_wireless_core(bcm, phy->type); if (!err) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.h +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.h @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ void bcm43xx_wireless_core_reset(struct void bcm43xx_mac_suspend(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); void bcm43xx_mac_enable(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); -void bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); +void bcm43xx_cancel_work(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); void bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_setup(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); void bcm43xx_controller_restart(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm, const char *reason); Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_sysfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_sysfs.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_sysfs.c @@ -327,8 +327,9 @@ static ssize_t bcm43xx_attr_phymode_stor goto out; } - bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(bcm); + bcm43xx_cancel_work(bcm); mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex); + bcm43xx_set_status(bcm, BCM43xx_STAT_UNINIT); err = bcm43xx_select_wireless_core(bcm, phytype); if (!err) bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_setup(bcm); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
