"kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic:" errors with linux kernel 4.6

[Larry Finger]

On 05/19/2016 05:56 PM, Bob Copeland wrote:
> +linux-wireless
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 03:11:16PM -0600, James Feeney wrote:
>> Arch linux 4.6-1
>> wpa_supplicant 1:2.5-3
>> Toshiba Satellite, circa 2011, with a Pentium Dual-Core Mobile
>> Error is not seen on other machines.
>>
>> kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: wpa_supplicant/375/0x00000002
>
> This is a kernel bug, not a wpa_supplicant bug.  The linux-wireless mailing
> list would be a more appropriate venue for this bug report.
>
>
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: wpa_supplicant/627/0x00000002
> [...]
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff815c2b39>] __schedule+0x899/0xad0
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff815c2dac>] schedule+0x3c/0x90
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff815c5bb2>] schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0xa2/0x120
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff810e8b80>] ? hrtimer_init+0x120/0x120
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff815c5ba6>] ? schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x96/0x120
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff815c5c43>] schedule_hrtimeout_range+0x13/0x20
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffff815c568f>] usleep_range+0x4f/0x70
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffffa0667218>] rtl_rfreg_delay+0x38/0x50 [rtlwifi]
>> May 19 10:26:07 lapis kernel:  [<ffffffffa06dd0e7>] rtl92c_phy_config_rf_with_headerfile+0xc7/0xe0 [rtl8192ce]
>
> [Probably due to this kernel change:
>
> commit 49f86ec21c01b654f6ec47f2f4567f4f9ebaa26b
> Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> Date:   Mon Feb 15 16:12:07 2016 -0600
>
>      rtlwifi: Change long delays to sleeps
>
>
> ...apparently this function isn't in sleepable context after all.]
>

@James: Please run the command "dmesg | grep rtl_rfreg_delay". Do any of the 
resulting lines show a value other than "+0x38" for the offset? If that is the 
only one, the attached patch should fix the problem.

Thanks,

Larry

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