ath10k: freeze after disconnection on killer1525

[Gabriele Martino]

On 11/05/2015 15:30, Michal Kazior wrote:
> On 11 May 2015 at 14:50, Gabriele Martino <g.martino at gmx.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm using a Killer 1525 with hw2.1 firmware, and sometimes it stop working.
>> I can get it working again disconnecting and reconnecting, but sometimes
>> on disconnection it freezes for a long time:
>>
>> [ 2740.035190] dmar: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
>> [ 2740.035195] dmar: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [03:00.0] fault addr
>> ffbeb000
>>                DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not
>> set
> This looks like DMA tx pool memory address. I suspect
> firmware/hardware tried to access memory which was already unmapped by
> ath10k.
>
> If you're feeling lucky you could disable IOMMU - this should prevent
> from crashing and disconnecting. However this is hardly a solution
> unless you're okay with the device reading random memory and doing
> *stuff* with it (plaintext password from RAM sent on the air, anyone?
> :-)
This seems even worse than the problem itself :-)
Other ideas? Should I provide other logs?

Regards,
Gabriele