Re: [PATCH v5.18] ath11k: fix driver initialization failure with WoW unsupported hw

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Nagarajan Maran <quic_nmaran@quicinc.com> writes:

> In the "ath11k_wow_init", error value "EINVAL" is returned
> when the check for firmware support of WoW feature fails,
> which in turn stops the driver initialization.
>
> Warning message:
> [   31.040144] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   31.040185] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 51 at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wow.c:813 ath11k_wow_init+0xc8/0x13a8 [ath11k]
> [   31.043846] Modules linked in: ath11k_pci ath11k qmi_helpers
> [   31.054341] CPU: 1 PID: 51 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Tainted: G        W	5.17.0-wt-ath-594817-ga7f6aa925cf8-dirty #17
> [   31.060078] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. IPQ8074/AP-HK10-C2 (DT)
> [   31.070578] Workqueue: ath11k_qmi_driver_event ath11k_qmi_driver_event_work [ath11k]
> [   31.077782] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> [   31.085676] pc : ath11k_wow_init+0xc8/0x13a8 [ath11k]
> [   31.092359] lr : ath11k_mac_register+0x548/0xb98 [ath11k]
> [   31.097567] sp : ffff80000aa13c40
> [   31.102944] x29: ffff80000aa13c40 x28: ffff800009184390 x27: ffff000002959f20
> [   31.106251] x26: ffff000002828000 x25: ffff000002830000 x24: ffff000002830000
> [   31.113369] x23: ffff000002820000 x22: ffff00000282854c x21: 0000000000000000
> [   31.120487] x20: ffff00000295cf20 x19: ffff000002828540 x18: 0000000000000031
> [   31.127605] x17: 0000000000000004 x16: ffff0000028285fc x15: ffff00000295b040
> [   31.134723] x14: 0000000000000067 x13: ffff00000282859c x12: 000000000000000d
> [   31.141840] x11: 0000000000000018 x10: 0000000000000004 x9 : 0000000000000000
> [   31.148959] x8 : ffff00000289d680 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
> [   31.156077] x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff000002820968
> [   31.163196] x2 : 0000000000000080 x1 : 0080008af9981779 x0 : ffff000002959f20
> [   31.170314] Call trace:
> [   31.177421]  ath11k_wow_init+0xc8/0x13a8 [ath11k]
> [   31.179684]  ath11k_core_qmi_firmware_ready+0x430/0x5e0 [ath11k]
> [   31.184548]  ath11k_qmi_driver_event_work+0x16c/0x4f8 [ath11k]
> [   31.190623]  process_one_work+0x134/0x350
> [   31.196262]  worker_thread+0x12c/0x450
> [   31.200340]  kthread+0xf4/0x110
> [   31.203986]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> [   31.207026] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> [   31.210894] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to init wow: -22
> [   31.215467] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed register the radio with mac80211: -22
> [   31.221117] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to create pdev core: -22
>
> Fix this by returning value "0" when FW doesn't support WoW
> to allow driver to proceed with initialize sequence and also
> remove the unnecessary "WARN_ON".
>
> Fixes: ba9177fcef21 ("Add basic WoW functionalities")
> Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-01100-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>
> Signed-off-by: Nagarajan Maran <quic_nmaran@quicinc.com>

Fixes tag is wrong, it should be:

Fixes: ba9177fcef21 ("ath11k: Add basic WoW functionalities")

I fixed it in the pending branch.

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