This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rt2x00: do not pause queue unconditionally on error path
to the 4.9-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:
rt2x00-do-not-pause-queue-unconditionally-on-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:33:56 +0100
Subject: rt2x00: do not pause queue unconditionally on error path
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6dd80efd75ce7c2dbd9f117cf585ee2b33a42ee1 ]
Pausing queue without checking threshold is racy with txdone path.
Moreover we do not need pause queue on any error, but only if queue
is full - in case when we send RTS frame ( other cases of almost full
queue are already handled in rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame() ).
Patch fixes of theoretically possible problem of pausing empty
queue.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
@@ -142,15 +142,25 @@ void rt2x00mac_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *h
if (!rt2x00dev->ops->hw->set_rts_threshold &&
(tx_info->control.rates[0].flags & (IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_RTS_CTS |
IEEE80211_TX_RC_USE_CTS_PROTECT))) {
- if (rt2x00queue_available(queue) <= 1)
- goto exit_fail;
+ if (rt2x00queue_available(queue) <= 1) {
+ /*
+ * Recheck for full queue under lock to avoid race
+ * conditions with rt2x00lib_txdone().
+ */
+ spin_lock(&queue->tx_lock);
+ if (rt2x00queue_threshold(queue))
+ rt2x00queue_pause_queue(queue);
+ spin_unlock(&queue->tx_lock);
+
+ goto exit_free_skb;
+ }
if (rt2x00mac_tx_rts_cts(rt2x00dev, queue, skb))
- goto exit_fail;
+ goto exit_free_skb;
}
if (unlikely(rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame(queue, skb, control->sta, false)))
- goto exit_fail;
+ goto exit_free_skb;
/*
* Pausing queue has to be serialized with rt2x00lib_txdone(). Note
@@ -164,10 +174,6 @@ void rt2x00mac_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *h
return;
- exit_fail:
- spin_lock(&queue->tx_lock);
- rt2x00queue_pause_queue(queue);
- spin_unlock(&queue->tx_lock);
exit_free_skb:
ieee80211_free_txskb(hw, skb);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/rt2x00-do-not-pause-queue-unconditionally-on-error-path.patch