[Bug] mt7921e driver in 5.16 causes kernel panic

[sean.wang at mediatek.com]

From: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>

>On 1/11/22 16:31, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 1/11/22 3:17 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>>> I am seeing an intermittent bug in mt7921e driver. When the driver
>>> module is loaded and is being initialized, almost every other time it
>>> seems to write to some wild memory location. This results in driver
>>> failing to initialize with message "Timeout for driver own" and at
>>> the same time I start to see "Bad page state" messages for random
>>> processes. Here is the relevant part of dmesg:
>>
>> Please see if this helps?
>>
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>
>> If the nic fails to start, it is possible that the reset_work has
>> already been scheduled.  Ensure the work item is canceled so we do not
>> have use-after-free crash in case cleanup is called before the work
>> item is executed.
>>
>> This fixes crash on my x86_64 apu2 when mt7921k radio fails to work.
>> Radio still fails, but OS does not crash.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
>> index 6073bedaa1c08..9b33002dcba4a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
>> @@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ static void mt7921_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>>
>>       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev->pm.ps_work);
>>       cancel_work_sync(&dev->pm.wake_work);
>> +    cancel_work_sync(&dev->reset_work);
>>       mt76_connac_free_pending_tx_skbs(&dev->pm, NULL);
>>
>>       mt7921_mutex_acquire(dev);
>
>Hi Ben,
>
>Unfortunately that did not help. I still saw the same messages and a kernel panic. I do not see this bug if I power down the laptop before booting it up, so mt7921_stop() would make sense as the reasonable place to fix it.

Hi, Khalid

Could you try the patch below? It should be helpful to your issue

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/70e27cbc652cbdb78277b9c691a3a5ba02653afb.1641540175.git.objelf@gmail.com/

>
>Thanks,
>Khalid
>
>