From 1b4cd55626b6ffa93d18848412afb912a4add585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Hansen-Baird Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:53:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Remove unnecessary irq save/restore in hw_init() rtl8723be hw_init() calls local_save_flags(flags) followed by local_irq_enable(). Later, local_irq_restore(flags) is called. This causes warnings from Lockdep on boot and modprobe, as local_irq_restore(flags) should only be called while irqs are disabled. The warning was introduced to detect this class of bug in [1]. With testing I found that all paths which call hw_init() have irqs already enabled for rtl8723be. Furthermore, the calls were originally added for the rtl8192ce in commit f78bccd79ba3 ("rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Fix too long disable of IRQs") before later being added to most other rtlwifi drivers. Commit d3feae41a347 ("rtlwifi: Update power-save routines for 062814 driver") then replaces the call to spin_lock_irqsave() before hw_init(), and thus the codepath which caused irqs to be disabled in hw_init and prompted the original commit has been removed. The same irq save/restore pattern is also present in the hw_init() of rtl8192ce, rtl8723ae, rtl8188ee, rtl8192se and rtl8192cu, however I don't have the hardware to test them, so I did not include them in my changes. Tested on a Razer Blade 14 2017. Example of output from Lockdep prior to fix: raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled ... Call Trace: rtl8723be_hw_init+0x5992/0x7220 [rtl8723be] ? static_obj+0x61/0xa0 rtl_pci_start+0x222/0x5c0 [rtl_pci] rtl_op_start+0x128/0x1a0 [rtlwifi] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 drv_start+0x16c/0x550 [mac80211] ... irq event stamp: 887679 hardirqs last enabled at (887689): [] __up_console_sem+0x90/0xa0 hardirqs last disabled at (887698): [] __up_console_sem+0x75/0xa0 softirqs last enabled at (887670): [] __irq_exit_rcu+0x175/0x2f0 softirqs last disabled at (887649): [] __irq_exit_rcu+0x175/0x2f0 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210111153707.10071-1-mark.rutland@arm.com/ Signed-off-by: William Hansen-Baird Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609095359.2964193-1-william.hansen.baird@gmail.com --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c index e1f811218894..bf7b5a32adaa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c @@ -1333,11 +1333,6 @@ int rtl8723be_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) bool rtstatus = true; int err; u8 tmp_u1b; - unsigned long flags; - - /* reenable interrupts to not interfere with other devices */ - local_save_flags(flags); - local_irq_enable(); rtlhal->fw_ready = false; rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = true; @@ -1443,7 +1438,6 @@ int rtl8723be_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rtl8723be_dm_init(hw); exit: - local_irq_restore(flags); rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = false; return err; }