[PATCH] wcn36xx: Move hal_buf allocation to devm_kmalloc in probe

Bryan O'Donoghue bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org
Sat Jun 5 10:33:47 PDT 2021


Right now wcn->hal_buf is allocated in wcn36xx_start(). This is a problem
since we should have setup all of the buffers we required by the time
ieee80211_register_hw() is called.

struct ieee80211_ops callbacks may run prior to mac_start() and therefore
wcn->hal_buf must be initialized.

This is easily remediated by moving the allocation to probe() taking the
opportunity to tidy up freeing memory by using devm_kmalloc().

Fixes: 8e84c2582169 ('wcn36xx: mac80211 driver for Qualcomm WCN3660/WCN3680
hardware')

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
index 84e117e0546c..2ccf7a8924a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/main.c
@@ -296,23 +296,16 @@ static int wcn36xx_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		goto out_free_dxe_pool;
 	}
 
-	wcn->hal_buf = kmalloc(WCN36XX_HAL_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!wcn->hal_buf) {
-		wcn36xx_err("Failed to allocate smd buf\n");
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out_free_dxe_ctl;
-	}
-
 	ret = wcn36xx_smd_load_nv(wcn);
 	if (ret) {
 		wcn36xx_err("Failed to push NV to chip\n");
-		goto out_free_smd_buf;
+		goto out_free_dxe_ctl;
 	}
 
 	ret = wcn36xx_smd_start(wcn);
 	if (ret) {
 		wcn36xx_err("Failed to start chip\n");
-		goto out_free_smd_buf;
+		goto out_free_dxe_ctl;
 	}
 
 	if (!wcn36xx_is_fw_version(wcn, 1, 2, 2, 24)) {
@@ -339,8 +332,6 @@ static int wcn36xx_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 
 out_smd_stop:
 	wcn36xx_smd_stop(wcn);
-out_free_smd_buf:
-	kfree(wcn->hal_buf);
 out_free_dxe_ctl:
 	wcn36xx_dxe_free_ctl_blks(wcn);
 out_free_dxe_pool:
@@ -375,8 +366,6 @@ static void wcn36xx_stop(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 
 	wcn36xx_dxe_free_mem_pools(wcn);
 	wcn36xx_dxe_free_ctl_blks(wcn);
-
-	kfree(wcn->hal_buf);
 }
 
 static void wcn36xx_change_ps(struct wcn36xx *wcn, bool enable)
@@ -1499,6 +1488,12 @@ static int wcn36xx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	mutex_init(&wcn->hal_mutex);
 	mutex_init(&wcn->scan_lock);
 
+	wcn->hal_buf = devm_kmalloc(wcn->dev, WCN36XX_HAL_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!wcn->hal_buf) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out_wq;
+	}
+
 	ret = dma_set_mask_and_coherent(wcn->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		wcn36xx_err("failed to set DMA mask: %d\n", ret);
-- 
2.30.1




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