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RE: [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: fix corner case power save issue

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Hi Kalle,

> From: Amitkumar Karwar [mailto:akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 8:46 PM
> To: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Cathy Luo; Nishant Sarmukadam; Amitkumar Karwar
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: fix corner case power save issue
> 
> We may get SLEEP event from firmware even if TXDone for last Tx packet
> is still pending. In this case, we may end up accessing PCIe memory for
> handling TXDone after power save handshake is completed. This causes
> kernel crash with external abort.
> 
> We will delay sending SLEEP confirm to firmware in this case to resolve
> the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Please drop this patch.
Xinming Hu has better and complete solution for this issue as discussed at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9405119/

Regards,
Amitkumar



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