[PATCH v3] ath10k: Fix crash during rmmod when probe firmware fails

[Valo, Kalle]

Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> writes:

> Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed at qti.qualcomm.com> writes:
>
>> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed at qti.qualcomm.com>
>>
>> This fixes the below crash when ath10k probe firmware fails,
>> NAPI polling tries to access a rx ring resource which was never
>> allocated, fix this by disabling NAPI right away once the probe
>> firmware fails by calling 'ath10k_hif_stop'. Its good to note
>> that the error is never propogated to 'ath10k_pci_probe' when
>> ath10k_core_register fails, so calling 'ath10k_hif_stop' to cleanup
>> PCI related things seems to be ok
>>
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
>> IP:  __ath10k_htt_rx_ring_fill_n+0x19/0x230 [ath10k_core]
>> __ath10k_htt_rx_ring_fill_n+0x19/0x230 [ath10k_core]
>>
>> Call Trace:
>>
>> [<ffffffffa113ec62>] ath10k_htt_rx_msdu_buff_replenish+0x42/0x90
>> [ath10k_core]
>> [<ffffffffa113f393>] ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0x433/0x17d0
>> [ath10k_core]
>> [<ffffffff8114406d>] ? __wake_up_common+0x4d/0x80
>> [<ffffffff811349ec>] ? cpu_load_update+0xdc/0x150
>> [<ffffffffa119301d>] ? ath10k_pci_read32+0xd/0x10 [ath10k_pci]
>> [<ffffffffa1195b17>] ath10k_pci_napi_poll+0x47/0x110 [ath10k_pci]
>> [<ffffffff817863af>] net_rx_action+0x20f/0x370
>>
>> Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>> Fixes: 3c97f5de1f28 ("ath10k: implement NAPI support")
>> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed at qti.qualcomm.com>
>
> Is there an easy way to reproduce this bug? I don't see it on my x86
> laptop with qca988x and I call rmmod all the time. I would like to test
> this myself.
>
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
>> @@ -2164,6 +2164,7 @@ static int ath10k_core_probe_fw(struct ath10k *ar)
>>  	ath10k_core_free_firmware_files(ar);
>>  
>>  err_power_down:
>> +	ath10k_hif_stop(ar);
>>  	ath10k_hif_power_down(ar);
>>  
>>  	return ret;
>
> This breaks the symmetry, we should not be calling ath10k_hif_stop() if
> we haven't called ath10k_hif_start() from the same function. This can
> just create a bigger mess later, for example with other bus support like
> sdio or usb. In theory it should enough that we call
> ath10k_hif_power_down() and pci.c does the rest correctly "behind the
> scenes".
>
> I investigated this a bit and I think the real cause is that we call
> napi_enable() from ath10k_pci_hif_power_up() and napi_disable() from
> ath10k_pci_hif_stop(). Does anyone remember why?
>
> I was expecting that we would call napi_enable()/napi_disable() either
> in ath10k_hif_power_up/down() or ath10k_hif_start()/stop(), but not
> mixed like it's currently.

So below is something I was thinking of, now napi_enable() is called
from ath10k_hif_start() and napi_disable() from ath10k_hif_stop(). Would
that work?

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
@@ -1648,6 +1648,8 @@ static int ath10k_pci_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
 
 	ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_BOOT, "boot hif start\n");
 
+	napi_enable(&ar->napi);
+
 	ath10k_pci_irq_enable(ar);
 	ath10k_pci_rx_post(ar);
 
@@ -2532,7 +2534,6 @@ static int ath10k_pci_hif_power_up(struct ath10k *ar)
 		ath10k_err(ar, "could not wake up target CPU: %d\n", ret);
 		goto err_ce;
 	}
-	napi_enable(&ar->napi);
 
 	return 0;

-- 
Kalle Valo