Patch "ath10k: fix kernel panic, move arvifs list head init before htt init" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ath10k: fix kernel panic, move arvifs list head init before htt init

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ath10k-fix-kernel-panic-move-arvifs-list-head-init-before-htt-init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4ad24a9d83bd4bf0a85e95bf144e18d3fda4fbf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anilkumar Kolli <akolli@qti.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:35:48 +0530
Subject: ath10k: fix kernel panic, move arvifs list head init before htt init

From: Anilkumar Kolli <akolli@qti.qualcomm.com>

commit 4ad24a9d83bd4bf0a85e95bf144e18d3fda4fbf1 upstream.

It is observed that while loading and unloading ath10k modules
in an infinite loop, before ath10k_core_start() completion HTT
rx frames are received, while processing these frames,
dereferencing the arvifs list code is getting hit before
initilizing the arvifs list, causing a kernel panic.

This patch initilizes the arvifs list before initilizing htt.

Fixes the below issue:
 [<bf88b058>] (ath10k_htt_rx_pktlog_completion_handler+0x278/0xd08 [ath10k_core])
 [<bf88b058>] (ath10k_htt_rx_pktlog_completion_handler [ath10k_core])
 [<bf88c0dc>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0x5f4/0xeb0 [ath10k_core])
 [<bf88c0dc>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task [ath10k_core])
 [<c0234100>] (tasklet_action+0x8c/0xec)
 [<c0234100>] (tasklet_action)
 [<c02337c0>] (__do_softirq+0xf8/0x228)
 [<c02337c0>] (__do_softirq)  [<c0233920>] (run_ksoftirqd+0x30/0x90)
 Code: e5954ad8 e2899008 e1540009 0a00000d (e5943008)
 ---[ end trace 71de5c2e011dbf56 ]---
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Fixes: 500ff9f9389d ("ath10k: implement chanctx API")
Signed-off-by: Anilkumar Kolli <akolli@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
@@ -1723,6 +1723,10 @@ int ath10k_core_start(struct ath10k *ar,
 		goto err_hif_stop;
 	}
 
+	ar->free_vdev_map = (1LL << ar->max_num_vdevs) - 1;
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ar->arvifs);
+
 	/* we don't care about HTT in UTF mode */
 	if (mode == ATH10K_FIRMWARE_MODE_NORMAL) {
 		status = ath10k_htt_setup(&ar->htt);
@@ -1736,10 +1740,6 @@ int ath10k_core_start(struct ath10k *ar,
 	if (status)
 		goto err_hif_stop;
 
-	ar->free_vdev_map = (1LL << ar->max_num_vdevs) - 1;
-
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ar->arvifs);
-
 	return 0;
 
 err_hif_stop:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from akolli@qti.qualcomm.com are

queue-4.6/ath10k-fix-debugfs-pktlog_filter-write.patch
queue-4.6/ath10k-fix-kernel-panic-move-arvifs-list-head-init-before-htt-init.patch