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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [07/49] libertas: clean up scan thread handling
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:55:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110215602.141637124@clark.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120110215609.GA22505@kroah.com>

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>

commit afbca95f95f2bf7283a72670c24c1f6de00b1cb5 upstream.

The libertas scan thread expects priv->scan_req to be non-NULL.  In theory,
it should always be set.  In practice, we've seen the following oops:

[ 8363.067444] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
[ 8363.067490] pgd = c0004000
[ 8363.078393] [00000004] *pgd=00000000
[ 8363.086711] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT
[ 8363.091375] Modules linked in: fuse libertas_sdio libertas psmouse mousedev ov7670 mmp_camera joydev videobuf2_core videobuf2_dma_sg videobuf2_memops [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[ 8363.107490] CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.0.0-gf7ccc69 #671)
[ 8363.112799] PC is at lbs_scan_worker+0x108/0x5a4 [libertas]
[ 8363.118326] LR is at 0x0
[ 8363.120836] pc : [<bf03a854>]    lr : [<00000000>]    psr: 60000113
[ 8363.120845] sp : ee66bf48  ip : 00000000  fp : 00000000
[ 8363.120845] r10: ee2c2088  r9 : c04e2efc  r8 : eef97005
[ 8363.132231] r7 : eee0716f  r6 : ee2c02c0  r5 : ee2c2088  r4 : eee07160
[ 8363.137419] r3 : 00000000  r2 : a0000113  r1 : 00000001  r0 : eee07160
[ 8363.143896] Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
[ 8363.157630] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 2e754019  DAC: 00000015
[ 8363.163334] Process kworker/u:1 (pid: 25, stack limit = 0xee66a2f8)

While I've not found a smoking gun, there are two places that raised red flags
for me.  The first is in _internal_start_scan, when we queue up a scan; we
first queue the worker, and then set priv->scan_req.  There's theoretically
a 50mS delay which should be plenty, but doing things that way just seems
racy (and not in the good way).

The second is in the scan worker thread itself.  Depending on the state of
priv->scan_channel, we cancel pending scan runs and then requeue a run in
300mS.  We then send the scan command down to the hardware, sleep, and if
we get scan results for all the desired channels, we set priv->scan_req to
NULL.  However, it that's happened in less than 300mS, what happens with
the pending scan run?

This patch addresses both of those concerns.  With the patch applied, we
have not seen the oops in the past two weeks.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
@@ -728,9 +728,11 @@ static void lbs_scan_worker(struct work_
 		le16_to_cpu(scan_cmd->hdr.size),
 		lbs_ret_scan, 0);
 
-	if (priv->scan_channel >= priv->scan_req->n_channels)
+	if (priv->scan_channel >= priv->scan_req->n_channels) {
 		/* Mark scan done */
+		cancel_delayed_work(&priv->scan_work);
 		lbs_scan_done(priv);
+	}
 
 	/* Restart network */
 	if (carrier)
@@ -759,12 +761,12 @@ static void _internal_start_scan(struct
 		request->n_ssids, request->n_channels, request->ie_len);
 
 	priv->scan_channel = 0;
-	queue_delayed_work(priv->work_thread, &priv->scan_work,
-		msecs_to_jiffies(50));
-
 	priv->scan_req = request;
 	priv->internal_scan = internal;
 
+	queue_delayed_work(priv->work_thread, &priv->scan_work,
+		msecs_to_jiffies(50));
+
 	lbs_deb_leave(LBS_DEB_CFG80211);
 }
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-10 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-10 21:56 [00/49] 3.2.1-stable review Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [01/49] MAINTAINERS: stable: Update address Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [02/49] Documentation: Update stable address Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [03/49] firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [04/49] rt2800usb: Move ID out of unknown Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [05/49] offb: Fix setting of the pseudo-palette for >8bpp Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [06/49] offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [08/49] bcma: support for suspend and resume Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [09/49] wl12xx: Validate FEM index from ini file and FW Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [10/49] wl12xx: Check buffer bound when processing nvs data Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [11/49] wl12xx: Restore testmode ABI Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [12/49] powerpc/time: Handle wrapping of decrementer Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [13/49] powerpc: Fix unpaired probe_hcall_entry and probe_hcall_exit Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [14/49] IB/qib: Fix a possible data corruption when receiving packets Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [15/49] IB/uverbs: Protect QP multicast list Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [16/49] iwlagn: fix TID use bug Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [17/49] iwlagn: fix (remove) use of PAGE_SIZE Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [18/49] perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk() Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [19/49] ore: Fix crash in case of an IO error Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [20/49] ore: fix BUG_ON, too few sgs when reading Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [21/49] ore: Must support none-PAGE-aligned IO Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [22/49] ore: FIX breakage when MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [23/49] reiserfs: Fix quota mount option parsing Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [24/49] reiserfs: Force inode evictions before umount to avoid crash Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [25/49] ext3: Dont warn from writepage when readonly inode is spotted after error Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [26/49] drivers: hv: Dont OOPS when you cannot init vmbus Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [27/49] Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister() Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [28/49] USB: update documentation for usbmon Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [29/49] usbfs: Fix oops related to user namespace conversion Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [30/49] atmel_serial: fix spinlock lockup in RS485 code Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [31/49] cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [32/49] udf: Fix deadlock when converting file from in-ICB one to normal one Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [33/49] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: clear dangling pointer Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [34/49] USB: isight: fix kernel bug when loading firmware Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [35/49] usb: usb-storage doesnt support dynamic id currently, the patch disables the feature to fix an oops Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [36/49] USB: pxa168: Fix compilation error Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [37/49] USB: add quirk for another camera Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [38/49] usb: musb: fix pm_runtime mismatch Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [39/49] USB: omninet: fix write_room Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [40/49] usb: option: add ZD Incorporated HSPA modem Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [41/49] USB: Add USB-ID for Multiplex RC serial adapter to cp210x.c Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [42/49] usb: fix number of mapped SG DMA entries Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [43/49] xhci: Properly handle COMP_2ND_BW_ERR Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [44/49] usb: ch9: fix up MaxStreams helper Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [45/49] igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [46/49] asix: fix infinite loop in rx_fixup() Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [47/49] bonding: fix error handling if slave is busy (v2) Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [48/49] usb: cdc-acm: Fix acm_tty_hangup() vs. acm_tty_close() race Greg KH
2012-01-10 21:55 ` [49/49] xfs: fix acl count validation in xfs_acl_from_disk() Greg KH

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