[PATCH 1/3] wifi: ath11k: fix dest ring-buffer corruption

Jeff Johnson jeff.johnson at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Jun 4 09:24:32 PDT 2025


On 6/3/2025 7:34 PM, Miaoqing Pan wrote:
> We previously had extensive discussions on this topic in the 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/ecfe850c-b263-4bee-b888-c34178e690fc@quicinc.com/ 
> thread. On my platform, dma_rmb() did not work as expected. The issue 
> only disappeared after disabling PCIe endpoint relaxed ordering in 
> firmware side. So it seems that HP was updated (Memory write) before 
> descriptor (Memory write), which led to the problem.

Have all ath11k and ath12k firmware been updated to prevent this problem from
the firmware side?

Or do we need both the barriers and the logic to retry reading the descriptor?




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