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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna, branch linux-5.17.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>wireless: use eth_hw_addr_set() instead of ether_addr_copy()</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T09:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T23:50:08+00:00</published>
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Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev-&gt;dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

Convert wireless from ether_addr_copy() to eth_hw_addr_set():

  @@
  expression dev, np;
  @@
  - ether_addr_copy(dev-&gt;dev_addr, np)
  + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-3-kuba@kernel.org
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Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev-&gt;dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

Convert wireless from ether_addr_copy() to eth_hw_addr_set():

  @@
  expression dev, np;
  @@
  - ether_addr_copy(dev-&gt;dev_addr, np)
  + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-3-kuba@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wireless: use eth_hw_addr_set()</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T09:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T23:50:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=708884e7f7f3adb00ddb32d1c1a772d30bf86747'/>
<id>708884e7f7f3adb00ddb32d1c1a772d30bf86747</id>
<content type='text'>
Convert all WiFi drivers from memcpy(... ETH_ADDR)
to eth_hw_addr_set():

  @@
  expression dev, np;
  @@
  - memcpy(dev-&gt;dev_addr, np, ETH_ALEN)
  + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-2-kuba@kernel.org
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<pre>
Convert all WiFi drivers from memcpy(... ETH_ADDR)
to eth_hw_addr_set():

  @@
  expression dev, np;
  @@
  - memcpy(dev-&gt;dev_addr, np, ETH_ALEN)
  + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-2-kuba@kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wireless: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls</title>
<updated>2021-10-13T06:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe JAILLET</name>
<email>christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-10T07:09:11+00:00</published>
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<id>ff1cc2fa3055ee4c83839f38b74b4ee370a2291c</id>
<content type='text'>
'destroy_workqueue()' already drains the queue before destroying it, so
there is no need to flush it explicitly.

Remove the redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls.

This was generated with coccinelle:

@@
expression E;
@@
- 	flush_workqueue(E);
	destroy_workqueue(E);

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0855d51423578ad019c0264dad3fe47a2e8af9c7.1633849511.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
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<pre>
'destroy_workqueue()' already drains the queue before destroying it, so
there is no need to flush it explicitly.

Remove the redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls.

This was generated with coccinelle:

@@
expression E;
@@
- 	flush_workqueue(E);
	destroy_workqueue(E);

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0855d51423578ad019c0264dad3fe47a2e8af9c7.1633849511.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>qtnfmac: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API</title>
<updated>2021-08-23T10:56:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe JAILLET</name>
<email>christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-22T07:44:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h should go away.

The patch has been generated with the coccinelle script below.

It has been compile tested.

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
+    DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_TODEVICE
+    DMA_TO_DEVICE

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE
+    DMA_FROM_DEVICE

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_NONE
+    DMA_NONE

@@
expression e1, e2, e3;
@@
-    pci_alloc_consistent(e1, e2, e3)
+    dma_alloc_coherent(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, GFP_)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3;
@@
-    pci_zalloc_consistent(e1, e2, e3)
+    dma_alloc_coherent(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, GFP_)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_free_consistent(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_free_coherent(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_map_single(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_map_single(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_unmap_single(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_unmap_single(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4, e5;
@@
-    pci_map_page(e1, e2, e3, e4, e5)
+    dma_map_page(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4, e5)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_unmap_page(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_unmap_page(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_map_sg(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_map_sg(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_unmap_sg(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_unmap_sg(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_single_for_cpu(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_single_for_device(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_sg_for_device(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_sg_for_device(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2;
@@
-    pci_dma_mapping_error(e1, e2)
+    dma_mapping_error(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2)

@@
expression e1, e2;
@@
-    pci_set_dma_mask(e1, e2)
+    dma_set_mask(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2)

@@
expression e1, e2;
@@
-    pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(e1, e2)
+    dma_set_coherent_mask(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2)

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
The wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h should go away.

The patch has been generated with the coccinelle script below.

It has been compile tested.

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
+    DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_TODEVICE
+    DMA_TO_DEVICE

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE
+    DMA_FROM_DEVICE

@@
@@
-    PCI_DMA_NONE
+    DMA_NONE

@@
expression e1, e2, e3;
@@
-    pci_alloc_consistent(e1, e2, e3)
+    dma_alloc_coherent(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, GFP_)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3;
@@
-    pci_zalloc_consistent(e1, e2, e3)
+    dma_alloc_coherent(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, GFP_)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_free_consistent(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_free_coherent(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_map_single(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_map_single(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_unmap_single(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_unmap_single(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4, e5;
@@
-    pci_map_page(e1, e2, e3, e4, e5)
+    dma_map_page(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4, e5)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_unmap_page(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_unmap_page(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_map_sg(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_map_sg(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_unmap_sg(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_unmap_sg(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_single_for_cpu(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_single_for_device(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_dma_sync_sg_for_device(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_sync_sg_for_device(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2, e3, e4)

@@
expression e1, e2;
@@
-    pci_dma_mapping_error(e1, e2)
+    dma_mapping_error(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2)

@@
expression e1, e2;
@@
-    pci_set_dma_mask(e1, e2)
+    dma_set_mask(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2)

@@
expression e1, e2;
@@
-    pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(e1, e2)
+    dma_set_coherent_mask(&amp;e1-&gt;dev, e2)

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>qtnfmac: Fix possible buffer overflow in qtnf_event_handle_external_auth</title>
<updated>2021-04-22T14:40:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lee Gibson</name>
<email>leegib@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-19T14:58:42+00:00</published>
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<id>130f634da1af649205f4a3dd86cbe5c126b57914</id>
<content type='text'>
Function qtnf_event_handle_external_auth calls memcpy without
checking the length.
A user could control that length and trigger a buffer overflow.
Fix by checking the length is within the maximum allowed size.

Signed-off-by: Lee Gibson &lt;leegib@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419145842.345787-1-leegib@gmail.com
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<pre>
Function qtnf_event_handle_external_auth calls memcpy without
checking the length.
A user could control that length and trigger a buffer overflow.
Fix by checking the length is within the maximum allowed size.

Signed-off-by: Lee Gibson &lt;leegib@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419145842.345787-1-leegib@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>qtnfmac: remove meaningless goto statement and labels</title>
<updated>2021-04-17T17:33:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wengjianfeng</name>
<email>wengjianfeng@yulong.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-06T02:52:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
some function's label meaningless, the label statement follows
the goto statement, no other statements, so just remove it.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: wengjianfeng &lt;wengjianfeng@yulong.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406025206.4924-1-samirweng1979@163.com
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<pre>
some function's label meaningless, the label statement follows
the goto statement, no other statements, so just remove it.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: wengjianfeng &lt;wengjianfeng@yulong.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210406025206.4924-1-samirweng1979@163.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>qtnfmac: remove meaningless labels</title>
<updated>2021-04-17T17:27:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wengjianfeng</name>
<email>wengjianfeng@yulong.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T06:57:54+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
some function's label meaningless, the return statement follows
the goto statement, so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: wengjianfeng &lt;wengjianfeng@yulong.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;geomatsi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223065754.34392-1-samirweng1979@163.com
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<pre>
some function's label meaningless, the return statement follows
the goto statement, so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: wengjianfeng &lt;wengjianfeng@yulong.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;geomatsi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223065754.34392-1-samirweng1979@163.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-2021-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next</title>
<updated>2021-02-06T17:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-06T17:36:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c90597bdebb5ff8d410edd8c556a6b5195503ca5'/>
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.12

First set of patches for v5.12. A smaller pull request this time,
biggest feature being a better key handling for ath9k. And of course
the usual fixes and cleanups all over.

Major changes:

ath9k
 * more robust encryption key cache management

brcmfmac
 * support BCM4365E with 43666 ChipCommon chip ID

* tag 'wireless-drivers-next-2021-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next: (35 commits)
  iwl4965: do not process non-QOS frames on txq-&gt;sched_retry path
  mt7601u: process tx URBs with status EPROTO properly
  wlcore: Fix command execute failure 19 for wl12xx
  mt7601u: use ieee80211_rx_list to pass frames to the network stack as a batch
  rtw88: 8723de: adjust the LTR setting
  rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl8192se: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl8192c-common: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl_pci: fix bool comparison in expressions
  wlcore: Downgrade exceeded max RX BA sessions to debug
  wilc1000: use flexible-array member instead of zero-length array
  brcmfmac: clear EAP/association status bits on linkdown events
  brcmfmac: Delete useless kfree code
  qtnfmac_pcie: Use module_pci_driver
  mt7601u: check the status of device in calibration
  mt7601u: process URBs in status EPROTO properly
  brcmfmac: support BCM4365E with 43666 ChipCommon chip ID
  wilc1000: fix spelling mistake in Kconfig "devision" -&gt; "division"
  mwifiex: pcie: Drop bogus __refdata annotation
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205161901.C7F83C433ED@smtp.codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.12

First set of patches for v5.12. A smaller pull request this time,
biggest feature being a better key handling for ath9k. And of course
the usual fixes and cleanups all over.

Major changes:

ath9k
 * more robust encryption key cache management

brcmfmac
 * support BCM4365E with 43666 ChipCommon chip ID

* tag 'wireless-drivers-next-2021-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next: (35 commits)
  iwl4965: do not process non-QOS frames on txq-&gt;sched_retry path
  mt7601u: process tx URBs with status EPROTO properly
  wlcore: Fix command execute failure 19 for wl12xx
  mt7601u: use ieee80211_rx_list to pass frames to the network stack as a batch
  rtw88: 8723de: adjust the LTR setting
  rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl8192se: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl8192c-common: fix bool comparison in expressions
  rtlwifi: rtl_pci: fix bool comparison in expressions
  wlcore: Downgrade exceeded max RX BA sessions to debug
  wilc1000: use flexible-array member instead of zero-length array
  brcmfmac: clear EAP/association status bits on linkdown events
  brcmfmac: Delete useless kfree code
  qtnfmac_pcie: Use module_pci_driver
  mt7601u: check the status of device in calibration
  mt7601u: process URBs in status EPROTO properly
  brcmfmac: support BCM4365E with 43666 ChipCommon chip ID
  wilc1000: fix spelling mistake in Kconfig "devision" -&gt; "division"
  mwifiex: pcie: Drop bogus __refdata annotation
  ...
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205161901.C7F83C433ED@smtp.codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver</title>
<updated>2021-01-26T10:55:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-22T15:19:43+00:00</published>
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Currently, _everything_ in cfg80211 holds the RTNL, and if you
have a slow USB device (or a few) you can get some bad lock
contention on that.

Fix that by re-adding a mutex to each wiphy/rdev as we had at
some point, so we have locking for the wireless_dev lists and
all the other things in there, and also so that drivers still
don't have to worry too much about it (they still won't get
parallel calls for a single device).

Then, we can restrict the RTNL to a few cases where we add or
remove interfaces and really need the added protection. Some
of the global list management still also uses the RTNL, since
we need to have it anyway for netdev management, but we only
hold the RTNL for very short periods of time here.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122161942.81df9f5e047a.I4a8e1a60b18863ea8c5e6d3a0faeafb2d45b2f40@changeid
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt; [marvell driver issues]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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Currently, _everything_ in cfg80211 holds the RTNL, and if you
have a slow USB device (or a few) you can get some bad lock
contention on that.

Fix that by re-adding a mutex to each wiphy/rdev as we had at
some point, so we have locking for the wireless_dev lists and
all the other things in there, and also so that drivers still
don't have to worry too much about it (they still won't get
parallel calls for a single device).

Then, we can restrict the RTNL to a few cases where we add or
remove interfaces and really need the added protection. Some
of the global list management still also uses the RTNL, since
we need to have it anyway for netdev management, but we only
hold the RTNL for very short periods of time here.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122161942.81df9f5e047a.I4a8e1a60b18863ea8c5e6d3a0faeafb2d45b2f40@changeid
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt; [marvell driver issues]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cfg80211: change netdev registration/unregistration semantics</title>
<updated>2021-01-22T15:28:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-22T15:19:42+00:00</published>
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We used to not require anything in terms of registering netdevs
with cfg80211, using a netdev notifier instead. However, in the
next patch reducing RTNL locking, this causes big problems, and
the simplest way is to just require drivers to do things better.

Change the registration/unregistration semantics to require the
drivers to call cfg80211_(un)register_netdevice() when this is
happening due to a cfg80211 request, i.e. add_virtual_intf() or
del_virtual_intf() (or if it somehow has to happen in any other
cfg80211 callback).

Otherwise, in other contexts, drivers may continue to use the
normal netdev (un)registration functions as usual.

Internally, we still use the netdev notifier and track (by the
new wdev-&gt;registered bool) if the wdev had already been added
to cfg80211 or not.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122161942.cf2f4b65e4e9.Ida8234e50da13eb675b557bac52a713ad4eddf71@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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We used to not require anything in terms of registering netdevs
with cfg80211, using a netdev notifier instead. However, in the
next patch reducing RTNL locking, this causes big problems, and
the simplest way is to just require drivers to do things better.

Change the registration/unregistration semantics to require the
drivers to call cfg80211_(un)register_netdevice() when this is
happening due to a cfg80211 request, i.e. add_virtual_intf() or
del_virtual_intf() (or if it somehow has to happen in any other
cfg80211 callback).

Otherwise, in other contexts, drivers may continue to use the
normal netdev (un)registration functions as usual.

Internally, we still use the netdev notifier and track (by the
new wdev-&gt;registered bool) if the wdev had already been added
to cfg80211 or not.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122161942.cf2f4b65e4e9.Ida8234e50da13eb675b557bac52a713ad4eddf71@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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