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Baochen Qiang 06ac2aa13f wifi: ath12k: fix dead lock while flushing management frames 
[ Upstream commit f88e9fc30a ]

Commit [1] converted the management transmission work item into a
wiphy work. Since a wiphy work can only run under wiphy lock
protection, a race condition happens in below scenario:

1. a management frame is queued for transmission.
2. ath12k_mac_op_flush() gets called to flush pending frames associated
   with the hardware (i.e, vif being NULL). Then in ath12k_mac_flush()
   the process waits for the transmission done.
3. Since wiphy lock has been taken by the flush process, the transmission
   work item has no chance to run, hence the dead lock.

>From user view, this dead lock results in below issue:

 wlp8s0: authenticate with xxxxxx (local address=xxxxxx)
 wlp8s0: send auth to xxxxxx (try 1/3)
 wlp8s0: authenticate with xxxxxx (local address=xxxxxx)
 wlp8s0: send auth to xxxxxx (try 1/3)
 wlp8s0: authenticated
 wlp8s0: associate with xxxxxx (try 1/3)
 wlp8s0: aborting association with xxxxxx by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
 ath12k_pci 0000:08:00.0: failed to flush mgmt transmit queue, mgmt pkts pending 1

The dead lock can be avoided by invoking wiphy_work_flush() to proactively
run the queued work item. Note actually it is already present in
ath12k_mac_op_flush(), however it does not protect the case where vif
being NULL. Hence move it ahead to cover this case as well.

Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00302-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.115823.3

Fixes: 56dcbf0b52 ("wifi: ath12k: convert struct ath12k::wmi_mgmt_tx_work to struct wiphy_work") # [1]
Reported-by: Stuart Hayhurst <stuart.a.hayhurst@gmail.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220959
Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113-ath12k-fix-dead-lock-while-flushing-v1-1-9713621f3a0f@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-01-30 10:32:10 +01:00
arch arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix wrong register range of rk3576 gpu 2026-01-30 10:32:08 +01:00
block block: zero non-PI portion of auto integrity buffer 2026-01-23 11:21:16 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt 2026-01-08 10:16:43 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-sm8550: Add missing required power-domains and resets 2026-01-02 12:57:27 +01:00
drivers wifi: ath12k: fix dead lock while flushing management frames 2026-01-30 10:32:10 +01:00
fs btrfs: fix missing fields in superblock backup with BLOCK_GROUP_TREE 2026-01-30 10:32:09 +01:00
include dt-bindings: power: qcom,rpmpd: Add SC8280XP_MXC_AO 2026-01-30 10:32:09 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.