This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: agg-tx: don't schedule_and_wake_txq() under sta->lock to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mac80211-agg-tx-don-t-schedule_and_wake_txq-under-st.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6a60526c1828890b88b3be88a9dd6b01c8c384dc Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 2 15:26:25 2021 +0200 mac80211: agg-tx: don't schedule_and_wake_txq() under sta->lock [ Upstream commit 06c41bda0ea14aa7fba932a9613c4ee239682cf0 ] When we call ieee80211_agg_start_txq(), that will in turn call schedule_and_wake_txq(). Called from ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb() this is done under sta->lock, which leads to certain circular lock dependencies, as reported by Chris Murphy: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJCQCtSXJ5qA4bqSPY=oLRMbv-irihVvP7A2uGutEbXQVkoNaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In general, ieee80211_agg_start_txq() is usually not called with sta->lock held, only in this one place. But it's always called with sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx held, and that's therefore clearly sufficient. Change ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb() to also call it without the sta->lock held, by factoring it out of ieee80211_remove_tid_tx() (which is only called in this one place). This breaks the locking chain and makes it less likely that we'll have similar locking chain problems in the future. Fixes: ba8c3d6f16a1 ("mac80211: add an intermediate software queue implementation") Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20211202152554.f519884c8784.I555fef8e67d93fff3d9a304886c4a9f8b322e591@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c index 1a5768ae5f515..d801ceb2ed7fa 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c +++ b/net/mac80211/agg-tx.c @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ * Copyright 2007, Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx> * Copyright 2007-2010, Intel Corporation * Copyright(c) 2015-2017 Intel Deutschland GmbH - * Copyright (C) 2018 - 2020 Intel Corporation + * Copyright (C) 2018 - 2021 Intel Corporation */ #include <linux/ieee80211.h> @@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ ieee80211_agg_start_txq(struct sta_info *sta, int tid, bool enable) struct ieee80211_txq *txq = sta->sta.txq[tid]; struct txq_info *txqi; + lockdep_assert_held(&sta->ampdu_mlme.mtx); + if (!txq) return; @@ -290,7 +292,6 @@ static void ieee80211_remove_tid_tx(struct sta_info *sta, int tid) ieee80211_assign_tid_tx(sta, tid, NULL); ieee80211_agg_splice_finish(sta->sdata, tid); - ieee80211_agg_start_txq(sta, tid, false); kfree_rcu(tid_tx, rcu_head); } @@ -871,6 +872,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct sta_info *sta, int tid, { struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata; bool send_delba = false; + bool start_txq = false; ht_dbg(sdata, "Stopping Tx BA session for %pM tid %d\n", sta->sta.addr, tid); @@ -888,10 +890,14 @@ void ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb(struct sta_info *sta, int tid, send_delba = true; ieee80211_remove_tid_tx(sta, tid); + start_txq = true; unlock_sta: spin_unlock_bh(&sta->lock); + if (start_txq) + ieee80211_agg_start_txq(sta, tid, false); + if (send_delba) ieee80211_send_delba(sdata, sta->sta.addr, tid, WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR, WLAN_REASON_QSTA_NOT_USE);