Jan reported that his b43-based laptop hangs during suspend. The problem turned out to be mac80211 asking the driver to stop the hardware before removing interfaces, and interface removal caused b43 to touch the hardware (while down, which causes the hang). This patch fixes mac80211 to do reorder these operations to have them in the correct order -- first remove interfaces and then stop the hardware. Some more code is necessary to be able to do so in a race-free manner, in particular it is necessary to not process frames received during quiescing. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13337. Reported-by: Jan Scholz <scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/pm.c | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- net/mac80211/rx.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/pm.c 2009-07-28 17:58:11.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/pm.c 2009-07-28 18:06:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -54,15 +54,6 @@ int __ieee80211_suspend(struct ieee80211 rcu_read_unlock(); - /* flush again, in case driver queued work */ - flush_workqueue(local->hw.workqueue); - - /* stop hardware - this must stop RX */ - if (local->open_count) { - ieee80211_led_radio(local, false); - drv_stop(local); - } - /* remove STAs */ spin_lock_bh(&local->sta_lock); list_for_each_entry(sta, &local->sta_list, list) { @@ -110,7 +101,22 @@ int __ieee80211_suspend(struct ieee80211 drv_remove_interface(local, &conf); } + /* stop hardware - this must stop RX */ + if (local->open_count) { + ieee80211_led_radio(local, false); + drv_stop(local); + } + + /* + * flush again, in case driver queued work -- it + * shouldn't be doing (or cancel everything in the + * stop callback) that but better safe than sorry. + */ + flush_workqueue(local->hw.workqueue); + local->suspended = true; + /* need suspended to be visible before quiescing is false */ + barrier(); local->quiescing = false; return 0; --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/rx.c 2009-07-28 17:58:52.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/rx.c 2009-07-28 18:04:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -2441,6 +2441,18 @@ void __ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw return; } + /* + * If we're suspending, it is possible although not too likely + * that we'd be receiving frames after having already partially + * quiesced the stack. We can't process such frames then since + * that might, for example, cause stations to be added or other + * driver callbacks be invoked. + */ + if (unlikely(local->quiescing || local->suspended)) { + kfree_skb(skb); + return; + } + if (status->flag & RX_FLAG_HT) { /* rate_idx is MCS index */ if (WARN_ON(status->rate_idx < 0 || -- 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
