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Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Add peer flush in ath10k_flush for STATION

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On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 2:03 AM Wen Gong <wgong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the noisy environment, if there are packets in the queue and can't
> send out, the suspend timing will be more than 5 seconds due to the wait,
> flush the queue to optimize the suspend timing, and let the upper layer to
> retry the packets after resume.
>
> Tested with QCA6174 PCI with firmware
> WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00109-QCARMSWPZ-1, but this will also affect QCA9377 PCI.
> It's not a regression with new firmware releases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> index 97548f9..8df3cec 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> @@ -6814,9 +6814,20 @@ static void ath10k_flush(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
>                          u32 queues, bool drop)
>  {
>         struct ath10k *ar = hw->priv;
> -
> -       if (drop)
> +       struct ath10k_vif *arvif;
> +       u32 bitmap;
> +
> +       if (drop) {
> +               if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) {

'vif' may be NULL. It is trivially easy for me to crash a system on
v4.20-rc1 by suspending the system while not connected.

I'll send a patch to fix this.

Brian

> +                       bitmap = ~(1 << WMI_MGMT_TID);
> +                       list_for_each_entry(arvif, &ar->arvifs, list) {
> +                               if (arvif->vdev_type == WMI_VDEV_TYPE_STA)
> +                                       ath10k_wmi_peer_flush(ar, arvif->vdev_id,
> +                                                             arvif->bssid, bitmap);
> +                       }
> +               }
>                 return;
> +       }
>
>         mutex_lock(&ar->conf_mutex);
>         ath10k_mac_wait_tx_complete(ar);
> --
> 1.9.1
>



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