Due to rfkill and iwlwifi mishmash of SW / HW killswitch representation,
we have race conditions which make unable turn wifi radio on, after enable
and disable again killswitch. I can observe this problem on my laptop
with iwl3945 device.
In rfkill core HW switch and SW switch are separate 'states'. Device can
be only in one of 3 states: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED, RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED,
RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED. Whereas in iwlwifi driver we have separate bits
STATUS_RF_KILL_HW and STATUS_RF_KILL_SW for HW and SW switches - radio can be
turned on, only if both bits are cleared.
In this particular race conditions, radio can not be turned on if in driver
STATUS_RF_KILL_SW bit is set, and rfkill core is in state
RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED, because rfkill core is unable to call
rfkill->toggle_radio(). This situation can be entered in case:
- killswitch is turned on
- rfkill core 'see' button change first and move to RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
also call ->toggle_radio() and STATE_RF_KILL_SW in driver is set
- iwl3945 get info about button from hardware to set STATUS_RF_KILL_HW bit and
force rfkill to move to RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
- killsiwtch is turend off
- driver clear STATUS_RF_KILL_HW
- rfkill core is unable to clear STATUS_RF_KILL_SW in driver
Additionally call to rfkill_epo() when STATUS_RF_KILL_HW in driver is set
cause move to the same situation.
In 2.6.31 this problem is fixed due to _total_ rewrite of rfkill subsystem.
This is a quite small fix for 2.6.30.x in iwl3945 driver. We disable
STATUS_RF_KILL_SW bit regardless of HW bit state. Also report to rfkill
subsystem SW switch bit before HW switch bit to move rfkill subsystem
to SOFT_BLOCK rather than HARD_BLOCK.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
I'm not sure if this is good candidate for stable as this is not backport
of upstream commit. Also I did not test this patch with other iwlwifi devices,
only with iwl3945.
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c
index 2ad9faf..d6b6098 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c
@@ -54,21 +54,28 @@ static int iwl_rfkill_soft_rf_kill(void *data, enum rfkill_state state)
case RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED:
if (iwl_is_rfkill_hw(priv)) {
err = -EBUSY;
- goto out_unlock;
+ /* pass error to rfkill core to make it state HARD
+ * BLOCKED and disable software kill switch */
}
iwl_radio_kill_sw_enable_radio(priv);
break;
case RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED:
iwl_radio_kill_sw_disable_radio(priv);
+ /* rfkill->mutex lock is taken */
+ if (priv->rfkill->state == RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED) {
+ /* force rfkill core state to be SOFT BLOCKED,
+ * otherwise core will be unable to disable software
+ * kill switch */
+ priv->rfkill->state = RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED;
+ }
break;
default:
IWL_WARN(priv, "we received unexpected RFKILL state %d\n",
state);
break;
}
-out_unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
return err;
}
@@ -132,14 +139,11 @@ void iwl_rfkill_set_hw_state(struct iwl_priv *priv)
if (!priv->rfkill)
return;
- if (iwl_is_rfkill_hw(priv)) {
+ if (iwl_is_rfkill_sw(priv))
+ rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED);
+ else if (iwl_is_rfkill_hw(priv))
rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED);
- return;
- }
-
- if (!iwl_is_rfkill_sw(priv))
- rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED);
else
- rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED);
+ rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwl_rfkill_set_hw_state);
--
1.6.2.5
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