[PATCH] ath11k: Handle failure in qmi firmware ready

[Kalle Valo]

Seevalamuthu Mariappan <quic_seevalam at quicinc.com> wrote:

> In some scenarios like firmware crashes during init time
> and hardware gets restarted after qmi firmware ready event.
> During restart, ath11k_core_qmi_firmware_ready() returns timeout.
> But, this failure is not handled and ATH11K_FLAG_REGISTERED is set.
> 
> When hardware restart completed, firmware sends firmware ready event
> again. Since ATH11K_FLAG_REGISTERED is already set, ath11k handles
> this as core restart. Inits are not done because of previous timeout.
> But ath11k_core_restart does deinit's which causes NULL pointer crash.
> 
> Fix this by handling failure from ath11k_core_qmi_firmware_ready().
> 
> Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-00881-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seevalamuthu Mariappan <quic_seevalam at quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

a19c0e104db9 ath11k: Handle failure in qmi firmware ready

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