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Re: [BISECTED REGRESSION] Wireless networking kernel crashes

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Hi,

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 08:37:54PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2021-11-18 14:25, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > I have tried to upgrade my wireless AP (Raspberry Pi with rt2x00usb)
> > from v5.9 to the current mainline, but now it keeps crashing every hour
> > or so, basically making my wireless network unusable.
> > 
> > I have bisected this to:
> > 
> > commit 03c3911d2d67a43ad4ffd15b534a5905d6ce5c59
> > Author: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Jun 17 18:31:12 2021 +0200
> > 
> >      mac80211: call ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl() when dequeue
> > 
> > With the previous commit the system stays up for weeks...
> > 
> > I just tried today's mainline, and it crashed after 10 minutes:
> Please test if this patch fixes the issue:

Thanks, that seems to help. I've been now running with this change
roughly 24 hours, and still going fine...

A.


> ---
> --- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
> @@ -1822,15 +1822,15 @@ static int invoke_tx_handlers_late(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
>  	struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(tx->skb);
>  	ieee80211_tx_result res = TX_CONTINUE;
> +	if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&tx->local->hw, HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
> +		CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
> +
>  	if (unlikely(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_RETRANSMISSION)) {
>  		__skb_queue_tail(&tx->skbs, tx->skb);
>  		tx->skb = NULL;
>  		goto txh_done;
>  	}
> -	if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&tx->local->hw, HAS_RATE_CONTROL))
> -		CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_rate_ctrl);
> -
>  	CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_michael_mic_add);
>  	CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_sequence);
>  	CALL_TXH(ieee80211_tx_h_fragment);



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