[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix too long disable of IRQs" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix too long disable of IRQs

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.22.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 712b4a702c4a2d880569d7990bf2c4b73511c51e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:53:53 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix too long disable of IRQs

commit bfc1010c418a22cbebd8b1bd1e75dad6a527a609 upstream.

In commit f78bccd79ba3cd9d9664981b501d57bdb81ab8a4 entitled "rtlwifi:
rtl8192ce: Fix too long disable of IRQs", Olivier Langlois
<olivier at trillion01.com> fixed a problem caused by an extra long disabling
of interrupts. This patch makes the same fix for rtl8723ae.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c
index 0a8c038..f0532c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c
@@ -846,14 +846,25 @@ int rtl8723ae_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	bool rtstatus = true;
 	int err;
 	u8 tmp_u1b;
+	unsigned long flags;

 	rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = true;
+	/* As this function can take a very long time (up to 350 ms)
+	 * and can be called with irqs disabled, reenable the irqs
+	 * to let the other devices continue being serviced.
+	 *
+	 * It is safe doing so since our own interrupts will only be enabled
+	 * in a subsequent step.
+	 */
+	local_save_flags(flags);
+	local_irq_enable();
+
 	rtlpriv->intf_ops->disable_aspm(hw);
 	rtstatus = _rtl8712e_init_mac(hw);
 	if (rtstatus != true) {
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Init MAC failed\n");
 		err = 1;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	}

 	err = rtl8723ae_download_fw(hw);
@@ -861,8 +872,7 @@ int rtl8723ae_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_WARNING,
 			 "Failed to download FW. Init HW without FW now..\n");
 		err = 1;
-		rtlhal->fw_ready = false;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	} else {
 		rtlhal->fw_ready = true;
 	}
@@ -937,6 +947,8 @@ int rtl8723ae_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_INIT, DBG_TRACE, "under 1.5V\n");
 	}
 	rtl8723ae_dm_init(hw);
+exit:
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = false;
 	return err;
 }
--
1.9.1