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* [PATCH 2.6.30 v2] iwl3945: fix rfkill switch
@ 2009-08-13 12:29 Stanislaw Gruszka
  2009-08-13 17:12 ` reinette chatre
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stanislaw Gruszka @ 2009-08-13 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable
  Cc: linux-wireless, Zhu Yi, Reinette Chatre, John W. Linville,
	Stanislaw Gruszka

Due to rfkill and iwlwifi mishmash of SW / HW killswitch representation,
we have race conditions which make unable turn wifi radio on, after enable
and disable again killswitch. I can observe this problem on my laptop
with iwl3945 device.

In rfkill core HW switch and SW switch are separate 'states'. Device can
be only in one of 3 states: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED, RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED,
RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED. Whereas in iwlwifi driver we have separate bits
STATUS_RF_KILL_HW and STATUS_RF_KILL_SW for HW and SW switches - radio can be
turned on, only if both bits are cleared.

In this particular race conditions, radio can not be turned on if in driver
STATUS_RF_KILL_SW bit is set, and rfkill core is in state
RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED, because rfkill core is unable to call
rfkill->toggle_radio(). This situation can be entered in case:

- killswitch is turned on
- rfkill core 'see' button change first and move to RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
  also call ->toggle_radio() and STATE_RF_KILL_SW in driver is set
- iwl3945 get info about button from hardware to set STATUS_RF_KILL_HW bit and
  force rfkill to move to RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
- killsiwtch is turend off
- driver clear STATUS_RF_KILL_HW
- rfkill core is unable to clear STATUS_RF_KILL_SW in driver

Additionally call to rfkill_epo() when STATUS_RF_KILL_HW in driver is set
cause move to the same situation.

In 2.6.31 this problem is fixed due to _total_ rewrite of rfkill subsystem.
This is a quite small fix for 2.6.30.x in iwlwifi driver. We are changing
internal rfkill state to always have below relations true:

STATUS_RF_KILL_HW=1 STATUS_RF_KILL_SW=1 <-> RFKILL_STATUS_SOFT_BLOCKED
STATUS_RF_KILL_HW=0 STATUS_RF_KILL_SW=1 <-> RFKILL_STATUS_SOFT_BLOCKED
STATUS_RF_KILL_HW=1 STATUS_RF_KILL_SW=0 <-> RFKILL_STATUS_HARD_BLOCKED
STATUS_RF_KILL_HW=0 STATUS_RF_KILL_SW=0 <-> RFKILL_STATUS_UNBLOCKED

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
---
Patch was tested by me only with iwl3945 device.
  
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c
index 2ad9faf..fc3a95f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rfkill.c
@@ -53,22 +53,31 @@ static int iwl_rfkill_soft_rf_kill(void *data, enum rfkill_state state)
 	switch (state) {
 	case RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED:
 		if (iwl_is_rfkill_hw(priv)) {
+			/* pass error to rfkill core, make it state HARD
+			 * BLOCKED (rfkill->mutex taken) and disable
+			 * software kill switch */
 			err = -EBUSY;
-			goto out_unlock;
+			priv->rfkill->state = RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED;
 		}
 		iwl_radio_kill_sw_enable_radio(priv);
 		break;
 	case RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED:
 		iwl_radio_kill_sw_disable_radio(priv);
+		/* rfkill->mutex is taken */
+		if (priv->rfkill->state == RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED) {
+			/* force rfkill core state to be SOFT BLOCKED,
+			 * otherwise core will be unable to disable software
+			 * kill switch */
+			priv->rfkill->state = RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED;
+		}
 		break;
 	default:
 		IWL_WARN(priv, "we received unexpected RFKILL state %d\n",
 			state);
 		break;
 	}
-out_unlock:
-	mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
 
+	mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -132,14 +141,11 @@ void iwl_rfkill_set_hw_state(struct iwl_priv *priv)
 	if (!priv->rfkill)
 		return;
 
-	if (iwl_is_rfkill_hw(priv)) {
+	if (iwl_is_rfkill_sw(priv))
+		rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED);
+	else if (iwl_is_rfkill_hw(priv))
 		rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	if (!iwl_is_rfkill_sw(priv))
-		rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED);
 	else
-		rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED);
+		rfkill_force_state(priv->rfkill, RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwl_rfkill_set_hw_state);
-- 
1.6.2.5


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