[PATCH v2 1/5] wcn36xx: Fix dxe lock layering violation

[Kalle Valo]

Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org> wrote:

> We are looking at some interesting crashes with wcn36xx in the wild, with
> some of the data appearing to indicate multiple instances of "WARNING
> Spurious TX complete indication".
> 
> Looking at the code here we see that txrx.c is taking the dxe.c lock to set
> and unset the current TX skbuff pointer.
> 
> There is no obvious logical bug however, it is a layering violation to
> share locks like this.
> 
> Lets tidy up the code a bit by making access functions to set and unset the
> TX sbuff. This makes it easier to reason about this code without having to
> switch between multiple files.
> 
> Fixes: 8e84c2582169 ("wcn36xx: mac80211 driver for Qualcomm WCN3660/WCN3680 hardware")
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue at linaro.org>

Failed to apply, please rebase on top of ath.git master branch. But
please wait few days as there are quite a few wcn36xx patches pending.

error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c:878
error: drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.h:468
error: drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.h: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c:584
error: drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/txrx.c: patch does not apply
stg import: Diff does not apply cleanly

5 patches set to Changes Requested.

12568271 [v2,1/5] wcn36xx: Fix dxe lock layering violation
12568273 [v2,2/5] wcn36xx: Fix DMA channel enable/disable cycle
12568275 [v2,3/5] wcn36xx: Release DMA channel descriptor allocations
12568277 [v2,4/5] wcn36xx: Functionally decompose DXE reset
12568279 [v2,5/5] wcn36xx: Put DXE block into reset before freeing memory

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20211018231722.873525-2-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org/

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