This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback
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-ath6kl-reduce-warn-to-dev_dbg-in-callback.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 777354528c0686d80c311c3473879c94309ea428
Author: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 24 12:28:05 2023 +0200
wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback
[ Upstream commit 75c4a8154cb6c7239fb55d5550f481f6765fb83c ]
The warn is triggered on a known race condition, documented in the code above
the test, that is correctly handled. Using WARN() hinders automated testing.
Reducing severity.
Fixes: de2070fc4aa7 ("ath6kl: Fix kernel panic on continuous driver load/unload")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+555908813b2ea35dae9a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126182431.867984-1-pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
index c68848819a52d..9b88d96bfe96c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c
@@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ static int ath6kl_htc_pipe_rx_complete(struct ath6kl *ar, struct sk_buff *skb,
* Thus the possibility of ar->htc_target being NULL
* via ath6kl_recv_complete -> ath6kl_usb_io_comp_work.
*/
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!target)) {
- ath6kl_err("Target not yet initialized\n");
+ if (!target) {
+ ath6kl_dbg(ATH6KL_DBG_HTC, "Target not yet initialized\n");
status = -EINVAL;
goto free_skb;
}
