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Revert "wifi: cfg80211: check wiphy mutex is held for wdev mutex"

PATCH In review Ping-Ke Shih 3 participants 3 messages Sep 26, 2024 – Sep 27, 2024 Stable branch

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PATCH 1/1 Revert "wifi: cfg80211: check wiphy mutex is held for wdev mutex"

This reverts commit 268f84a827534c4e4c2540a4e29daa73359fc0a5.

The reverted commit is based on implementation of wiphy locking that isn't planned to redo on a stable kernel, so revert it to avoid warning:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at net/wireless/core.h:231 disconnect_work+0xb8/0x144 [cfg80211]
 CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.6.51-00141-ga1649b6f8ed6 #7
 Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 SoloX (Device Tree)
 Workqueue: events disconnect_work [cfg80211]
  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x58/0x70
  dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x70/0x1c0
  __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x16c/0x294
  warn_slowpath_fmt from disconnect_work+0xb8/0x144 [cfg80211]
  disconnect_work [cfg80211] from process_one_work+0x204/0x620
  process_one_work from worker_thread+0x1b0/0x474
  worker_thread from kthread+0x10c/0x12c
  kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24
---
 net/wireless/core.h | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
net/wireless/core.h +1 -7
index c955be6c6daa..f0a3a2317638 100644
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@ void cfg80211_register_wdev(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 static inline void wdev_lock(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
 	__acquires(wdev)
 {
-	lockdep_assert_held(&wdev->wiphy->mtx);
 	mutex_lock(&wdev->mtx);
 	__acquire(wdev->mtx);
 }
@@ -236,16 +235,11 @@ static inline void wdev_lock(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
 static inline void wdev_unlock(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
 	__releases(wdev)
 {
-	lockdep_assert_held(&wdev->wiphy->mtx);
 	__release(wdev->mtx);
 	mutex_unlock(&wdev->mtx);
 }
 
-static inline void ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(struct wireless_dev *wdev)
-{
-	lockdep_assert_held(&wdev->wiphy->mtx);
-	lockdep_assert_held(&wdev->mtx);
-}
+#define ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev) lockdep_assert_held(&(wdev)->mtx)
 
 static inline bool cfg80211_has_monitors_only(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev)
 {
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Quoted 19 lines · Ping-Ke Shih

This reverts commit 268f84a827534c4e4c2540a4e29daa73359fc0a5.

The reverted commit is based on implementation of wiphy locking that isn't planned to redo on a stable kernel, so revert it to avoid warning:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at net/wireless/core.h:231 disconnect_work+0xb8/0x144 [cfg80211]
 CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.6.51-00141-ga1649b6f8ed6 #7
 Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 SoloX (Device Tree)
 Workqueue: events disconnect_work [cfg80211]
  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x58/0x70
  dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x70/0x1c0
  __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x16c/0x294
  warn_slowpath_fmt from disconnect_work+0xb8/0x144 [cfg80211]
  disconnect_work [cfg80211] from process_one_work+0x204/0x620
  process_one_work from worker_thread+0x1b0/0x474
  worker_thread from kthread+0x10c/0x12c
  kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24
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Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h