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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2019-03-05 13:32:30 +0100
committerLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>2019-04-03 11:13:05 +0300
commitf5ae2f932e2f8f4f79796f44832ae8fca26f188a (patch)
tree435ad2d9108537870ab6aae7fb935c110a81724a /drivers/net
parentMerge tag 'iwlwifi-for-kalle-2019-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-fixes (diff)
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iwlwifi: mvm: avoid possible deadlock in TX path
iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu() may run from iwl_mvm_add_new_dqa_stream_wk(), where soft-IRQs aren't disabled. In this case, it may hold the station lock and be interrupted by a soft-IRQ that also wants to acquire said lock, leading to a deadlock. Fix it by disabling soft-IRQs in iwl_mvm_add_new_dqa_stream_wk(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c
index db26f0041a81..98d123dd7177 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c
@@ -1399,7 +1399,9 @@ void iwl_mvm_add_new_dqa_stream_wk(struct work_struct *wk)
iwl_mvm_sta_alloc_queue(mvm, txq->sta, txq->ac, tid);
list_del_init(&mvmtxq->list);
+ local_bh_disable();
iwl_mvm_mac_itxq_xmit(mvm->hw, txq);
+ local_bh_enable();
}
mutex_unlock(&mvm->mutex);