From: Wei Zhang <wei.zhang@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com
Cc: ath11k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Wei Zhang <wei.zhang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath11k: cancel SSR work items during PCI shutdown
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 21:30:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260404043050.3433754-1-wei.zhang@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
A reboot can crash the kernel if it overlaps with WLAN firmware crash
recovery (SSR). The crash is a NULL pointer dereference in the MHI teardown
path while freeing DMA-backed MHI contexts.
Simplified trace:
dma_free_attrs
mhi_deinit_dev_ctxt [mhi]
ath11k_pci_power_down [ath11k_pci]
ath11k_pci_shutdown [ath11k_pci]
device_shutdown
kernel_restart
On the host side, SSR is driven by the MHI RDDM callback, which queues
reset_work to perform device recovery. reset_work power-cycles the device
by calling ath11k_hif_power_down() followed by ath11k_hif_power_up(). The
power-down phase deinitializes MHI and frees DMA resources.
Shutdown/reboot runs fully asynchronously with this RDDM-driven SSR
recovery flow. As a result, the shutdown path
(ath11k_pci_shutdown() -> ath11k_pci_power_down()) can race with the SSR
recovery sequence.
Fix this by canceling SSR-related work items during PCI shutdown, marking
the device as unregistering, and serializing the RDDM callback path that
checks and queues reset_work. This ensures that no new SSR recovery work
can be queued once teardown has started, and that any in-flight recovery
work is fully synchronized before device power-down, preventing MHI
teardown and DMA resource freeing from running more than once.
Note: This issue only affects PCI/MHI-based devices. AHB-based ath11k
devices do not queue reset_work in normal SSR flows.
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-04866.5-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1
Fixes: 13da397f884d ("ath11k: add support for device recovery for QCA6390/WCN6855")
Fixes: 5edbb148bc57 ("wifi: ath11k: Add firmware coredump collection support")
Signed-off-by: Wei Zhang <wei.zhang@oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c | 4 +++-
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c
index f994233df2bb..a6c9ff112c68 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mhi.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause-Clear
/*
* Copyright (c) 2020 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (c) 2021-2025 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
*/
#include <linux/msi.h>
@@ -282,8 +282,10 @@ static void ath11k_mhi_op_status_cb(struct mhi_controller *mhi_cntrl,
break;
}
+ spin_lock_bh(&ab->base_lock);
if (!(test_bit(ATH11K_FLAG_UNREGISTERING, &ab->dev_flags)))
queue_work(ab->workqueue_aux, &ab->reset_work);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ab->base_lock);
break;
default:
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
index 7114eca8810d..35bb9e7a63a2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
@@ -1210,6 +1210,14 @@ static void ath11k_pci_shutdown(struct pci_dev *pdev)
struct ath11k_pci *ab_pci = ath11k_pci_priv(ab);
ath11k_pci_set_irq_affinity_hint(ab_pci, NULL);
+
+ spin_lock_bh(&ab->base_lock);
+ set_bit(ATH11K_FLAG_UNREGISTERING, &ab->dev_flags);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ab->base_lock);
+
+ cancel_work_sync(&ab->reset_work);
+ cancel_work_sync(&ab->dump_work);
+
ath11k_pci_power_down(ab, false);
}
base-commit: 15551ababf6d4e857f2101366a0c3eaa86dd822c
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-04 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-04 4:30 Wei Zhang [this message]
2026-04-28 2:05 ` [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath11k: cancel SSR work items during PCI shutdown Baochen Qiang
2026-04-28 7:19 ` Rameshkumar Sundaram
2026-04-30 21:30 ` Jeff Johnson
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