Ath11k warnings, and eventual phy going away requiring reboot

[James Prestwood]

Hi Kalle,

On 12/19/23 10:24 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> James Prestwood <prestwoj at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I noticed this after one of our devices dropped offline. The device
>> had roamed 7 minutes prior so I doubt that had anything to do with it.
>> But then we get this, and then tons of warnings. I'm happy to provide
>> full stack traces but its quite a few, not sure which ones are
>> relevant or not. After all the warnings IWD got an RTNL del link event
>> and was unable to recover from that. It seems after that ath11k tried
>> to power back on but failed.
>>
>> This is a stock 6.2 ubuntu kernel, WCN6855:
> BTW I don't know how it's nowadays, but back in the day Ubuntu heavily
> modified ath11k. And we can't support distro kernels anyway as we don't
> know what they have changed in the kernel.

Ok. I understand where your coming from, but at the same time Ubuntu is 
the largest linux distribution so it seems like these type of reports 
wouldn't be uncommon. OTOH maybe users just go directly to Ubuntu. 
Anyways, this is a list of patches isn't huge according to the changelog 
(for 6.2):

      - wifi: ath11k: fix registration of 6Ghz-only phy without the full 
channel
      - wifi: ath11k: add support default regdb while searching 
board-2.bin for
      - wifi: ath11k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats
      - wifi: ath11k: Add missing check for ioremap
      - wifi: ath11k: Ignore frags from uninitialized peer in dp.
      - wifi: ath11k: Fix SKB corruption in REO destination ring
      - wifi: ath11k: reduce the MHI timeout to 20s
      - wifi: ath11k: Use platform_get_irq() to get the interrupt
      - wifi: ath11k: fix SAC bug on peer addition with sta band migration
      - wifi: ath11k: fix deinitialization of firmware resources
      - wifi: ath11k: fix writing to unintended memory region
      - wifi: ath11k: Fix memory leak in ath11k_peer_rx_frag_setup
      - wifi: ath11k: fix monitor mode bringup crash
      - wifi: ath11k: debugfs: fix to work with multiple PCI devices
      - wifi: ath11k: allow system suspend to survive ath11k

I see the dilemma of not wanting to waste time debugging when there are 
unknown changes applied. I was hoping someone would recognize the 
behavior and could suggest a patch/kernel/firmware to try, I do see some 
recent patches related to firmware powering down which seems related. I 
also will try the latest firmware that was just released.

Thanks,
James