[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: 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: rtl8192cu: 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 279da83be8a7868a3f5e841cce1a4bc3ad8f3acb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:53:50 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix too long disable of IRQs

commit a53268be0cb9763f11da4f6fe3fb924cbe3a7d4a 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 rtl8192cu.

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/rtl8192cu/hw.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c
index c08d0f4..57e34ee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c
@@ -985,6 +985,17 @@ int rtl92cu_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	struct rtl_ps_ctl *ppsc = rtl_psc(rtl_priv(hw));
 	int err = 0;
 	static bool iqk_initialized;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	/* 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();

 	rtlhal->hw_type = HARDWARE_TYPE_RTL8192CU;
 	err = _rtl92cu_init_mac(hw);
@@ -997,7 +1008,7 @@ int rtl92cu_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;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	}
 	rtlhal->last_hmeboxnum = 0; /* h2c */
 	_rtl92cu_phy_param_tab_init(hw);
@@ -1034,6 +1045,8 @@ int rtl92cu_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	_InitPABias(hw);
 	_update_mac_setting(hw);
 	rtl92c_dm_init(hw);
+exit:
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	return err;
 }

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1.9.1