This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't wait for tx queues if firmware is dead to the 4.19-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-iwlwifi-mvm-don-t-wait-for-tx-queues-if-firmwar.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit be860584321ada13ec6519fd46b14a5ec2992979 Author: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Aug 25 19:17:04 2024 +0300 wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't wait for tx queues if firmware is dead [ Upstream commit 3a84454f5204718ca5b4ad2c1f0bf2031e2403d1 ] There is a WARNING in iwl_trans_wait_tx_queues_empty() (that was recently converted from just a message), that can be hit if we wait for TX queues to become empty after firmware died. Clearly, we can't expect anything from the firmware after it's declared dead. Don't call iwl_trans_wait_tx_queues_empty() in this case. While it could be a good idea to stop the flow earlier, the flush functions do some maintenance work that is not related to the firmware, so keep that part of the code running even when the firmware is not running. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240825191257.a7cbd794cee9.I44a739fbd4ffcc46b83844dd1c7b2eb0c7b270f6@changeid [edit commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c index 3f37fb64e71c2..3c00a737c4b34 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c @@ -4326,6 +4326,10 @@ static void iwl_mvm_flush_no_vif(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, u32 queues, bool drop) int i; if (!iwl_mvm_has_new_tx_api(mvm)) { + /* we can't ask the firmware anything if it is dead */ + if (test_bit(IWL_MVM_STATUS_HW_RESTART_REQUESTED, + &mvm->status)) + return; if (drop) { mutex_lock(&mvm->mutex); iwl_mvm_flush_tx_path(mvm, @@ -4407,8 +4411,11 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_flush(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, /* this can take a while, and we may need/want other operations * to succeed while doing this, so do it without the mutex held + * If the firmware is dead, this can't work... */ - if (!drop && !iwl_mvm_has_new_tx_api(mvm)) + if (!drop && !iwl_mvm_has_new_tx_api(mvm) && + !test_bit(IWL_MVM_STATUS_HW_RESTART_REQUESTED, + &mvm->status)) iwl_trans_wait_tx_queues_empty(mvm->trans, msk); }