Driver incorrectly validates command completion: instead of waiting for a command to be acknowledged it continues execution. Most of the time driver gets acknowledge of the command completion in a tasklet before it executes the next one. But sometimes it sends the next command before it gets acknowledge for the previous one. In such a case one of the following error messages appear in the log: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command. Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command. Failed to send TX_POWER: Already sending a command. After that you need to reload the driver to get it working again. This bug occurs during roammaping (reported by Sam Varshavchik) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738508 and machine booting (reported by Tom Gundersen and Mads Kiilerich) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28097 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802106 This patch doesn't fix the delay issue during firmware load. But at least device now works as usual after boot. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c index 4130802..8cbafa5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c @@ -2192,6 +2192,7 @@ static int __ipw_send_cmd(struct ipw_priv *priv, struct host_cmd *cmd) { int rc = 0; unsigned long flags; + unsigned long now, end; spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); if (priv->status & STATUS_HCMD_ACTIVE) { @@ -2233,10 +2234,20 @@ static int __ipw_send_cmd(struct ipw_priv *priv, struct host_cmd *cmd) } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); + now = jiffies; + end = now + HOST_COMPLETE_TIMEOUT; +again: rc = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(priv->wait_command_queue, !(priv-> status & STATUS_HCMD_ACTIVE), - HOST_COMPLETE_TIMEOUT); + end - now); + if (rc < 0) { + now = jiffies; + if (time_before(now, end)) + goto again; + rc = 0; + } + if (rc == 0) { spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); if (priv->status & STATUS_HCMD_ACTIVE) { -- 1.7.2.5 -- 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
