Sometimes, the network manager is failing to connect to the AP due
to the below kernel crash message. The reason behind this,
after issuing the connect command to the chip, the chip is sending
disconnect event and then immediately one connect event to the host
in some random cases.
The host driver resets all states (including cfg80211 state machine)
when it receives disconnect event from the chip. But, still the host
driver reports the next received connect event to cfg80211, at that time
cfg80211 SME state would have been in IDLE state, which was causing
the below kernel crash.
Now, host driver's sme state machine is checked every time before
delivering connect event to cfg80211
WARNING: at net/wireless/sme.c:517 cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120()
[..]
Call Trace:
[<c0145732>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
[<c05d676d>] ? cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120
[<c05d676d>] ? cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120
[<c0145782>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30
[<c05d676d>] cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120
[<f83ff497>] ath6kl_cfg80211_connect_event+0x427/0x4f0 [ath6kl]
[<c035d26a>] ? put_dec+0x2a/0xa0
[<c035d645>] ? number+0x365/0x380
[<c0154675>] ? mod_timer+0x135/0x260
[<c035e00e>] ? format_decode+0x2fe/0x370
[<c01263c8>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10
[<c05fd91f>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50
[<c0146032>] ? console_unlock+0x172/0x1c0
[<f8402659>] ath6kl_connect_event+0x89/0x400 [ath6kl]
[<f840826e>] ath6kl_wmi_control_rx+0x98e/0x1d60 [ath6kl]
[<c01335b5>] ? __wake_up+0x45/0x60
[<f84053aa>] ath6kl_rx+0x56a/0x770 [ath6kl]
[<c04d0242>] ? mmc_release_host+0x22/0x40
[<c04d9329>] ? sdio_release_host+0x19/0x30
[<f840a27a>] ? ath6kl_sdio_read_write_sync+0x7a/0xc0 [ath6kl]
[<f83f82b1>] do_rx_completion+0x41/0x50 [ath6kl]
[<f83faa6a>] htc_rxmsg_pending_handler+0x6ba/0xbd0 [ath6kl]
[<f8404bb0>] ? ath6kl_tx_data_cleanup+0x30/0x30 [ath6kl]
[<f840a1c0>] ? ath6kl_sdio_irq_handler+0x30/0x70 [ath6kl]
[<f83f7cd5>] ath6kldev_intr_bh_handler+0x2a5/0x630 [ath6kl]
[<f840a1c0>] ath6kl_sdio_irq_handler+0x30/0x70 [ath6kl]
[<c04d97c7>] sdio_irq_thread+0xc7/0x2d0
[<c013aeb0>] ? default_wake_function+0x10/0x20
[<c012fc98>] ? __wake_up_common+0x48/0x70
[<c04d9700>] ? sdio_claim_irq+0x200/0x200
[<c0163854>] kthread+0x74/0x80
[<c01637e0>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x160/0x160
[<c0604c06>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Use wlan_iterate_nodes() directly.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
When ath6kl module was removed while a scan was ongoing the driver would
crash in ath6kl_cfg80211_scan_complete_event().
Fix the function not to iterate nodes when the scan is aborted. The nodes
are already freed when the module is being unloaded. This patch removes the
null check entirely as the wmi structure is not accessed anymore during
module unload.
Also fix a bug where the status was checked as a bitfield with '&' operator.
But it's not a bitfield, just a regular error code.
This is a port of my patch from ath6kl staging with the same title.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
ath6kl_cfg80211_scan_node() was calling cfg80211_inform_bss_frame()
with CFP_KERNEL but the function is executed with a spin lock taken.
This is wrong and the function must use GFP_ATOMIC instead.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
In my setup data transfer stalls when there's data transmission during
scan. After some testing I found out that using background scan
when connected to makes the problem go away. This is more like
a workaround than a proper fix, but as the stall is so severe the
workaround is justified.
With a dual band card this increases scan time when connected from
1.9s to 4.4s. When not connected the scan time is not affected and
is the same 1.9s.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Last May we started working on cleaning up ath6kl driver which is
currently in staging. The work has happened in a separate
ath6kl-cleanup tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath6kl-cleanup.git;a=summary
After over 1100 (!) patches we have now reached a state where I would
like to start discussing about pushing the driver to the wireless
trees and replacing the staging driver.
The driver is now a lot smaller and looks like a proper Linux driver.
The size of the driver (measured with simple wc -l) dropped from 49
kLOC to 18 kLOC and the number of the .c and .h files dropped from 107
to 22. Most importantly the number of subdirectories reduced from 26
to zero :)
There are two remaining checkpatch warnings in the driver which we
decided to omit for now:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/debug.c:31:
WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/sdio.c:527:
WARNING: msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms;
see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt
The driver has endian annotations for all the hardware specific
structures and there are no sparse errors. Unfortunately I don't have
any big endian hardware to test that right now.
We have been testing the driver both on x86 and arm platforms. The
code is also compiled with sparc and parisc cross compilers.
Notable missing features compared to the current staging driver are:
o HCI over SDIO support
o nl80211 testmode
o firmware logging
o suspend support
Testmode, firmware logging and suspend support will be added soon. HCI
over SDIO support will be more difficult as the HCI driver needs to
share code with the wifi driver. This is something we need to research
more.
Also I want to point out the changes I did for signed endian support.
As I wasn't able to find any support for signed endian annotations I
decided to follow what NTFS has done and added my own. Grep for sle16
and sle32, especially from wmi.h.
Various people have been working on the cleanup, the hall of
fame based on number of patches is:
543 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
403 Raja Mani
252 Kalle Valo
16 Vivek Natarajan
12 Suraj Sumangala
3 Joe Perches
2 Jouni Malinen
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suraj Sumangala <surajs@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Raja Mani