[PATCH v2] ath11k: Increment pending_mgmt_tx count before tx send invoke

P Praneesh quic_ppranees at quicinc.com
Mon Oct 25 06:24:42 PDT 2021


There is a race condition whereby the tx completion handler can be invoked
before the 'num_pending_mgmt_tx" count is incremented. If that occurs, we
could get warning trace indicating that 'num_pending_mgmt_tx' is 0 (because
it was not yet incremented). Ideally, this trace should be seen only if
mgmt tx has not happened but tx completion is received, and it is not
expected in this race condition.

Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.4.0.1-01386-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Co-developed-by: Lavanya Suresh <lavaks at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Lavanya Suresh <lavaks at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: P Praneesh <quic_ppranees at quicinc.com>
---
v2: - corrected signed off detail.
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
index 1cc5560..56f3208 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
@@ -5048,13 +5048,15 @@ static void ath11k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		arvif = ath11k_vif_to_arvif(skb_cb->vif);
 		if (ar->allocated_vdev_map & (1LL << arvif->vdev_id) &&
 		    arvif->is_started) {
+			atomic_inc(&ar->num_pending_mgmt_tx);
 			ret = ath11k_mac_mgmt_tx_wmi(ar, arvif, skb);
 			if (ret) {
+				if (atomic_dec_if_positive(&ar->num_pending_mgmt_tx) < 0)
+					WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+
 				ath11k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to tx mgmt frame, vdev_id %d :%d\n",
 					    arvif->vdev_id, ret);
 				ieee80211_free_txskb(ar->hw, skb);
-			} else {
-				atomic_inc(&ar->num_pending_mgmt_tx);
 			}
 		} else {
 			ath11k_warn(ar->ab,
-- 
2.7.4




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