This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: don't call kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave() to the 6.1-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: wifi-rtlwifi-rtl8188ee-don-t-call-kfree_skb-under-sp.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 67b1ff806027104ca01e76e80bca1c4e2f5bc542 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Dec 7 22:14:10 2022 +0800 wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: don't call kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave() [ Upstream commit 2611687fa7ffc84190f92292de0b80468de17220 ] It is not allowed to call kfree_skb() from hardware interrupt context or with interrupts being disabled. All the SKBs have been dequeued from the old queue, so it's safe to enqueue these SKBs to a free queue, then free them after spin_unlock_irqrestore() at once. Compile tested only. Fixes: 7fe3b3abb5da ("rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: rtl8821ae: Fix a queue locking problem") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221207141411.46098-3-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c index 58c2ab3d44bef..de61c9c0ddec4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c @@ -68,8 +68,10 @@ static void _rtl88ee_return_beacon_queue_skb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv = rtl_priv(hw); struct rtl_pci *rtlpci = rtl_pcidev(rtl_pcipriv(hw)); struct rtl8192_tx_ring *ring = &rtlpci->tx_ring[BEACON_QUEUE]; + struct sk_buff_head free_list; unsigned long flags; + skb_queue_head_init(&free_list); spin_lock_irqsave(&rtlpriv->locks.irq_th_lock, flags); while (skb_queue_len(&ring->queue)) { struct rtl_tx_desc *entry = &ring->desc[ring->idx]; @@ -79,10 +81,12 @@ static void _rtl88ee_return_beacon_queue_skb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rtlpriv->cfg->ops->get_desc(hw, (u8 *)entry, true, HW_DESC_TXBUFF_ADDR), skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE); - kfree_skb(skb); + __skb_queue_tail(&free_list, skb); ring->idx = (ring->idx + 1) % ring->entries; } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtlpriv->locks.irq_th_lock, flags); + + __skb_queue_purge(&free_list); } static void _rtl88ee_disable_bcn_sub_func(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)