This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: don't call kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave()
to the 5.10-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-rtl8821ae-don-t-call-kfree_skb-under-sp.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2790a6a52d90b928cdbe3bec676e505833ecd684
Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Dec 7 22:14:09 2022 +0800
wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: don't call kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave()
[ Upstream commit 106031c1f4a850915190d7ec1026696282f9359b ]
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: 5c99f04fec93 ("rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Update driver to match Realtek release of 06/28/14")
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/20221207141411.46098-2-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
index 33ffc24d36759..c4ee65cc2d5e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ static void _rtl8821ae_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];
@@ -37,10 +39,12 @@ static void _rtl8821ae_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 _rtl8821ae_set_bcn_ctrl_reg(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
