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From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
To: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>,
	"Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com" <Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com>,
	"kvalo@kernel.org" <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] wifi: rtl8xxxu: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave()
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 00:38:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cfea9eaf08446d5a7dfcb85da34dcf2@realtek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221207143738.67721-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 10:38 PM
> To: Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com; kvalo@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] wifi: rtl8xxxu: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave()
> 
> It is not allowed to call consume_skb() from hardware interrupt context
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ kfree_skb()? 
because this patch is to replace dev_kfree_skb().

> or with interrupts being disabled. So replace dev_kfree_skb() with
> dev_consume_skb_irq() under spin_lock_irqsave(). Compile tested only.
> 
> Fixes: 26f1fad29ad9 ("New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> index ac641a56efb0..d0600af5bef4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c
> @@ -5274,7 +5274,7 @@ static void rtl8xxxu_queue_rx_urb(struct rtl8xxxu_priv *priv,
>  		pending = priv->rx_urb_pending_count;
>  	} else {
>  		skb = (struct sk_buff *)rx_urb->urb.context;
> -		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> +		dev_consume_skb_irq(skb);

Why not dev_kfree_skb_irq() instead? any reason?

>  		usb_free_urb(&rx_urb->urb);
>  	}
> 
> --
> 2.25.1
> 
> 
> ------Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-08  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07 14:37 [PATCH] wifi: rtl8xxxu: don't call dev_kfree_skb() under spin_lock_irqsave() Yang Yingliang
2022-12-08  0:38 ` Ping-Ke Shih [this message]
2022-12-08  1:25   ` Yang Yingliang
2022-12-08  1:41     ` Ping-Ke Shih
2022-12-08  1:58       ` Yang Yingliang
2022-12-08 13:19       ` Yang Yingliang

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