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Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: zero fill txq->txb on queue reset

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On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:53 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:33 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > We allocate txq->txb area with kzalloc, but when reseting queue
> > during __iwl_down / __iwl_up we we leave old values, let's zero
> > initialize in such case as well.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
> > index a8935cd..0c8555c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
> > @@ -418,6 +418,8 @@ void iwl_tx_queue_reset(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_tx_queue *txq,
> >  
> >  	if (txq_id == priv->cmd_queue)
> >  		actual_slots++;
> > +	else
> > +		memset(txq->txb, 0, sizeof(txq->txb[0]) * TFD_QUEUE_SIZE_MAX);
> 
> I don't mind -- but I think the changelog should say that this isn't
> necessary since the device will never use any of those entries?

Err, I confused txb and tfds. But it still shouldn't be necessary --
aren't the entries reset to NULL when taken out of use?

johannes

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