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SubjectRe: b43 locks the machine when resuming after suspend to disk
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On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:32 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> >>> I think you need the appended patch, but it only applies to linux-next.
> >> A different version has been merged into what will become 2.6.26. I'll
> >> see what we can do about stable.
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ef3a62d272f033989e83eb1f26505f93f93e3e69;hp=6d1a3fb567a728d31474636e167c324702a0c38b
> >
> > Anybody have a stable tree around to see if that applies? I think it
> > should.
>
> It didn't, but this version will. It has been compile tested only.

Ah, the TXRX result thing, thanks a bunch. Adding stable to CC, can you
pick this up?


Subject: mac80211: detect driver tx bugs

When a driver rejects a frame in it's ->tx() callback, it must also
stop queues, otherwise mac80211 can go into a loop here. Detect this
situation and abort the loop after five retries, warning about the
driver bug.

Thanks to Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> for doing the -stable
port.


--- linux-2.6.orig/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ static int ieee80211_tx(struct net_devic
ieee80211_tx_handler *handler;
struct ieee80211_txrx_data tx;
ieee80211_txrx_result res = TXRX_DROP, res_prepare;
- int ret, i;
+ int ret, i, retries = 0;

WARN_ON(__ieee80211_queue_pending(local, control->queue));

@@ -1181,6 +1181,13 @@ retry:
if (!__ieee80211_queue_stopped(local, control->queue)) {
clear_bit(IEEE80211_LINK_STATE_PENDING,
&local->state[control->queue]);
+ retries++;
+ /*
+ * Driver bug, it's rejecting packets but
+ * not stopping queues.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(retries > 5))
+ goto drop;
goto retry;
}
memcpy(&store->control, control,




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