[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "mwifiex: fix system hang issue in cmd timeout error case" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mwifiex: fix system hang issue in cmd timeout error case

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From f1aa3915cb22aab4922f1846562b3076928b268d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bing Zhao <bzhao at marvell.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:58:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: fix system hang issue in cmd timeout error case

commit b1a47aa5e1e159e2cb06d7dfcc17ef5149b09299 upstream.

Reported by Tim Shepard:
I was seeing sporadic failures (wedgeups), and the majority of those
failures I saw printed the printouts in mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func with
cmd = 0xe5 which is CMD_802_11_HS_CFG_ENH.  When this happens, two
minutes later I get notified that the rtcwake thread is blocked, like
this:
      INFO: task rtcwake:3495 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

To get the hung thread unblocked we wake up the cmd wait queue and
cancel the ioctl.

Reported-by: Tim Shepard <shep at laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
index 51e023e..fc3b6f4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c
@@ -873,9 +873,6 @@ mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func(unsigned long function_context)
 		return;
 	}
 	cmd_node = adapter->curr_cmd;
-	if (cmd_node->wait_q_enabled)
-		adapter->cmd_wait_q.status = -ETIMEDOUT;
-
 	if (cmd_node) {
 		adapter->dbg.timeout_cmd_id =
 			adapter->dbg.last_cmd_id[adapter->dbg.last_cmd_index];
@@ -921,6 +918,14 @@ mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func(unsigned long function_context)

 		dev_err(adapter->dev, "ps_mode=%d ps_state=%d\n",
 			adapter->ps_mode, adapter->ps_state);
+
+		if (cmd_node->wait_q_enabled) {
+			adapter->cmd_wait_q.status = -ETIMEDOUT;
+			wake_up_interruptible(&adapter->cmd_wait_q.wait);
+			mwifiex_cancel_pending_ioctl(adapter);
+			/* reset cmd_sent flag to unblock new commands */
+			adapter->cmd_sent = false;
+		}
 	}
 	if (adapter->hw_status == MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_INITIALIZING)
 		mwifiex_init_fw_complete(adapter);
--
1.7.9.5