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From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@kernel.org>
To: nbd@nbd.name, lorenzo@kernel.org
Cc: allan.wang@mediatek.com, quan.zhou@mediatek.com,
	leon.yen@mediatek.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
	Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mt76: mt7921: fix potential deadlock in mt7921_roc_abort_sync
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260126180013.8167-1-sean.wang@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>

roc_abort_sync() can deadlock with roc_work(). roc_work() holds
dev->mt76.mutex, while cancel_work_sync() waits for roc_work()
to finish. If the caller already owns the same mutex, both
sides block and no progress is possible.

This deadlock can occur during station removal when
mt76_sta_state() -> mt76_sta_remove() -> mt7921_mac_sta_remove() ->
mt7921_roc_abort_sync() invokes cancel_work_sync() while
roc_work() is still running and holding dev->mt76.mutex.

This avoids the mutex deadlock and preserves exactly-once
work ownership.

Fixes: 352d966126e6 ("wifi: mt76: mt7921: fix a potential association failure upon resuming")
Co-developed-by: Quan Zhou <quan.zhou@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <quan.zhou@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
index 05793a786644..ddb81ca6bda0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c
@@ -371,12 +371,15 @@ void mt7921_roc_abort_sync(struct mt792x_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct mt792x_phy *phy = &dev->phy;
 
+	if (!test_and_clear_bit(MT76_STATE_ROC, &phy->mt76->state))
+		return;
+
 	timer_delete_sync(&phy->roc_timer);
-	cancel_work_sync(&phy->roc_work);
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(MT76_STATE_ROC, &phy->mt76->state))
-		ieee80211_iterate_interfaces(mt76_hw(dev),
-					     IEEE80211_IFACE_ITER_RESUME_ALL,
-					     mt7921_roc_iter, (void *)phy);
+	cancel_work(&phy->roc_work);
+
+	ieee80211_iterate_interfaces(mt76_hw(dev),
+				     IEEE80211_IFACE_ITER_RESUME_ALL,
+				     mt7921_roc_iter, (void *)phy);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mt7921_roc_abort_sync);
 
-- 
2.43.0


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