Search Linux Wireless

Re: [PATCH] wilc1000: fix a loop timeout condition

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 16:09 +0000, Ajay.Kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 19/03/21 8:17 pm, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > If the loop fails, the "while(trials--) {" loop will exit with "trials"
> > set to -1.  The test for that expects it to end with "trials" set to 0
> > so the warning message will not be printed.
> > 
> > Fix this by changing from a post-op to a pre-op.  This does mean that
> > we only make 99 attempts instead of 100 but that's okay.
> > 
> > Fixes: f135a1571a05 ("wilc1000: Support chip sleep over SPI")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks Dan.

Good catch, but wouldn't it be better to fix the time-out check
condition instead?  Something a long the lines of:

--- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c~	2021-03-29 12:44:52.066039259 -0600
+++ drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c	2021-03-29 12:40:29.176365116 -0600
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
 	u32 wakeup_reg, wakeup_bit;
 	u32 to_host_from_fw_reg, to_host_from_fw_bit;
 	u32 from_host_to_fw_reg, from_host_to_fw_bit;
-	u32 trials = 100;
+	int trials = 100;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (wilc->io_type == WILC_HIF_SDIO) {
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
 		if ((reg & to_host_from_fw_bit) == 0)
 			break;
 	}
-	if (!trials)
+	if (trials < 0)
 		pr_warn("FW not responding\n");
 
 	/* Clear bit 1 */


This way, the loop could actually get executed the number of times
indicated by the initialization of "trial" before issuing a warning
message.

  --david

> Acked-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c
> > index d4a90c490084..2030fc7f53ca 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan.c
> > @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ void chip_allow_sleep(struct wilc *wilc)
> >                 to_host_from_fw_bit = WILC_SPI_FW_TO_HOST_BIT;
> >         }
> > 
> > -       while (trials--) {
> > +       while (--trials) {
> >                 ret = hif_func->hif_read_reg(wilc, to_host_from_fw_reg, &reg);
> >                 if (ret)
> >                         return;
> > --
> > 2.30.2
> > 




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Wireless Regulations]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux