From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> WARN_ON_ONCE when we receive packets for self peer when mac80211 had not assigned a proper channel context. This scenario happens in QCA4019 when we start the AP via hostapd in background and start it once again in the background without killing the previous instance! This happens intermittently when we start / stop hostapd in a while loop (incase the hostapd is not properly killed). This results in mac80211 chancontext to be unassigned, while the self peer continuous receive packets in target operating channel. This results in lot of call traces in the rx path. Make this as a WARN_ON_ONCE to avoid flooding the console which result in rebooting low memory systems, while still reporting the warning once that we are receiving packets in target operating channel and to indicate that something is happening which is not the expected result. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c:803 [<c0318838>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<bf4a0104>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_channel+0xe0/0x1b8 [ath10k_core]) [<bf4a0104>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_channel [ath10k_core]) from [<bf4a025c>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_ppdu+0x80/0x288 [ath10k_core]) [<bf4a025c>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_ppdu [ath10k_core]) from [<bf4a1a9c>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0x724/0x9d4 [ath10k_core]) [<bf4a1a9c>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task [ath10k_core]) Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c index cc979a4..77d9200 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ ath10k_htt_rx_h_peer_channel(struct ath10k *ar, struct htt_rx_desc *rxd) if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!arvif)) return NULL; - if (WARN_ON(ath10k_mac_vif_chan(arvif->vif, &def))) + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ath10k_mac_vif_chan(arvif->vif, &def))) return NULL; return def.chan; -- 1.7.9.5 -- 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
