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Tamizh chelvam bd1d395070 ath10k: fix kernel panic by moving pci flush after napi_disable
When continuously running wifi up/down sequence, the napi poll
can be scheduled after the CE buffers being freed by ath10k_pci_flush

Steps:
  In a certain condition, during wifi down below scenario might occur.

ath10k_stop->ath10k_hif_stop->napi_schedule->ath10k_pci_flush->napi_poll(napi_synchronize).

In the above scenario, CE buffer entries will be freed up and become NULL in
ath10k_pci_flush. And the napi_poll has been invoked after the flush process
and it will try to get the skb from the CE buffer entry and perform some action on that.
Since the CE buffer already cleaned by pci flush this action will create NULL
pointer dereference and trigger below kernel panic.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000005c
PC is at ath10k_pci_htt_rx_cb+0x64/0x3ec [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_pci_htt_rx_cb [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_ce_per_engine_service+0x74/0xc4 [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_ce_per_engine_service [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_ce_per_engine_service_any+0x74/0x80 [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_ce_per_engine_service_any [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_pci_napi_poll+0x48/0xec [ath10k_pci]
ath10k_pci_napi_poll [ath10k_pci]
net_rx_action+0xac/0x160
net_rx_action
__do_softirq+0xdc/0x208
__do_softirq
irq_exit+0x84/0xe0
irq_exit
__handle_domain_irq+0x80/0xa0
__handle_domain_irq
gic_handle_irq+0x38/0x5c
gic_handle_irq
__irq_usr+0x44/0x60

Tested on QCA4019 and firmware version 10.4.3.2.1.1-00010

Signed-off-by: Tamizh chelvam <tamizhr@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
History 2018-08-24 14:41:50 +03:00
arch powerpc/mpc85xx: add clocks property for fman ptp timer node 2018-08-05 17:11:49 -07:00
block Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions" 2018-08-04 18:19:55 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto net: simplify sock_poll_wait 2018-07-30 09:10:25 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next 2018-08-05 17:29:27 -07:00
drivers ath10k: fix kernel panic by moving pci flush after napi_disable 2018-08-24 14:41:50 +03:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-05 13:04:31 -07:00
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security net: sched: introduce chain object to uapi 2018-07-23 20:44:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Yet another Clevo P950 quirk entry 2018-07-18 12:17:46 +02:00
tools tc-testing: remove duplicate spaces in skbedit match patterns 2018-08-05 17:39:24 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt Miscellaneous bugfixes, plus a small patchlet related to Spectre v2. 2018-07-18 11:08:44 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-08-05 13:04:31 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc8 2018-08-05 12:37:41 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.