[PATCH v2 1/5] ath10k: Ensure txrx-compl-task is stopped when cleaning htt-tx.

[Ben Greear]

On 05/09/2016 11:48 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 02:12:08PM -0700, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>>
>> Otherwise, the txrx-compl-task may access some bad memory?
>
> good to mention when this happens, will be helpful ifsome one recreates
> the issue and matches your call trace

The backtraces were all over the place because the driver was writing to
memory after it was freed, so I am not sure they are worth while.  I'm sure I posted
some to the mailing lists around the time where I was working on this, but since
I was fighting several different problems, hard to know exactly what was what.

Thanks,
Ben

>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
>> index 07b960e..58e88d3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
>> @@ -376,6 +376,8 @@ void ath10k_htt_tx_free(struct ath10k_htt *htt)
>>   {
>>   	int size;
>>
>> +	tasklet_kill(&htt->txrx_compl_task);
>> +
>>   	idr_for_each(&htt->pending_tx, ath10k_htt_tx_clean_up_pending, htt->ar);
>>   	idr_destroy(&htt->pending_tx);
>>
>> --
>> 2.4.3
>
> regards,
> shafi
>
>>
>>
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