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    • Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan's avatar
      ath9k: Fix kernel panic during driver initilization · 07445f68
      Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan authored
      
      
      all works need to be initialized before ieee80211_register_hw
      to prevent mac80211 call backs such as drv_start, drv_config
      getting started. otherwise we would queue/cancel works before
      initializing them and it leads to kernel panic.
      this issue can be recreated with the following script
      in Chrome laptops with AR928X cards, with background scan
      running (or) Network manager is running
      
      while true
      do
      sudo modprobe -v ath9k
      sleep 3
      sudo modprobe -r ath9k
      sleep 3
      done
      
      	 EIP: [<81040a47>] __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1 SS:ESP 0068:f6be9d70
      	 ---[ end trace 4f86d6139a9900ef ]---
      	 Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
      	 ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xf88a0000,
      	 irq=16
      	 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
      	 Pid: 456, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G      D
      	 3.0.13 #1
      	Call Trace:
      	 [<81379e21>] panic+0x53/0x14a
      	 [<81004a30>] oops_end+0x73/0x81
      	 [<81004b53>] die+0x4c/0x55
      	 [<81002710>] do_trap+0x7c/0x83
      	 [<81002855>] ? do_bounds+0x58/0x58
      	 [<810028cc>] do_invalid_op+0x77/0x81
      	 [<81040a47>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1
      	 [<810489ec>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x81/0x11f
      	 [<8103f809>] ? wait_on_work+0xe2/0xf7
      	 [<8137f807>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
      	 [<810300d8>] ? wait_consider_task+0x4ba/0x84c
      	 [<81040a47>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1
      	 [<810380c9>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x5f/0x67
      	 [<81040a91>] cancel_work_sync+0xf/0x11
      	 [<f88d7b7c>] ath_set_channel+0x62/0x25c [ath9k]
      	 [<f88d67d1>] ? ath9k_tx_last_beacon+0x26a/0x85c [ath9k]
      	 [<f88d8899>] ath_radio_disable+0x3f1/0x68e [ath9k]
      	 [<f90d0edb>] ieee80211_hw_config+0x111/0x116 [mac80211]
      	 [<f90dd95c>] __ieee80211_recalc_idle+0x919/0xa37 [mac80211]
      	 [<f90dda76>] __ieee80211_recalc_idle+0xa33/0xa37 [mac80211]
      	 [<812dbed8>] __dev_open+0x82/0xab
      
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
      Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
      Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      07445f68