linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/wireless, branch v3.6.6 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Revert "ath9k_hw: Updated AR9003 tx gain table for 5GHz" 2012-10-31T17:10:22+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2012-10-17T11:50:43+00:00 4ae29d121ef48cc7f3798e69bfde93742d83c760 commit 73b26df5fa1a6245d6fc982362518b620bc7c2fe upstream. This reverts commit a240dc7b3c7463bd60cf0a9b2a90f52f78aae0fd. This commit is reducing tx power by at least 10 db on some devices, e.g. the Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 73b26df5fa1a6245d6fc982362518b620bc7c2fe upstream.

This reverts commit a240dc7b3c7463bd60cf0a9b2a90f52f78aae0fd.

This commit is reducing tx power by at least 10 db on some devices,
e.g. the Buffalo WZR-HP-G450H.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/wireless: ipw2200: Fix panic occurring in ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx() 2012-10-31T17:10:21+00:00 Stanislav Yakovlev stas.yakovlev@gmail.com 2012-10-15T14:14:32+00:00 ceb80aec3793b4e34b84849c2823d052c91a855b commit bf11315eeda510ea4fc1a2bf972d8155d31d89b4 upstream. The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace: ... [67607.676067] [<c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c [67607.676067] [<c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0 [67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200] [67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200] [67607.676067] [<f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200] [67607.676067] [<f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw] [67607.676067] [<c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0 ... This bug was found by VittGam. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255 Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit bf11315eeda510ea4fc1a2bf972d8155d31d89b4 upstream.

The driver does not count space of radiotap fields when allocating skb for
radiotap packet. This leads to kernel panic with the following call trace:

...
[67607.676067] [<c152f90f>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
[67607.676067] [<c142f831>] ? skb_put+0x91/0xa0
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ? ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf5e5b>] ipw_handle_promiscuous_tx+0x16b/0x2d0 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8cf899b>] ipw_net_hard_start_xmit+0x8b/0x90 [ipw2200]
[67607.676067] [<f8741c5a>] libipw_xmit+0x55a/0x980 [libipw]
[67607.676067] [<c143d3e8>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x218/0x4d0
...

This bug was found by VittGam.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43255

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
iwlwifi: fix 6000 series channel switch command 2012-10-31T17:10:21+00:00 Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com 2012-09-25T14:40:12+00:00 44d127e0dd6e8eec8f351b766fa57ed69e18ea19 commit 8f7b8db6e0557c8437adf9371e020cd89a7e85dc upstream. The channel switch command for 6000 series devices is larger than the maximum inline command size of 320 bytes. The command is therefore refused with a warning. Fix this by allocating the command and using the NOCOPY mechanism. Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 8f7b8db6e0557c8437adf9371e020cd89a7e85dc upstream.

The channel switch command for 6000 series devices
is larger than the maximum inline command size of
320 bytes. The command is therefore refused with a
warning. Fix this by allocating the command and
using the NOCOPY mechanism.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
b43: Fix oops on unload when firmware not found 2012-10-31T17:10:20+00:00 Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net 2012-10-24T13:57:16+00:00 4ade7d2eedda437e2197b57e449a308e06f9bb4d commit f89ff6441df06abc2d95f3ef67525923032d6283 upstream. When b43 fails to find firmware when loaded, a subsequent unload will oops due to calling ieee80211_unregister_hw() when the corresponding register call was never made. Commit 2d838bb608e2d1f6cb4280e76748cb812dc822e7 fixed the same problem for b43legacy. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Markus Kanet <dvmailing@gmx.eu> Cc: Markus Kanet <dvmailing@gmx.eu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit f89ff6441df06abc2d95f3ef67525923032d6283 upstream.

When b43 fails to find firmware when loaded, a subsequent unload will
oops due to calling ieee80211_unregister_hw() when the corresponding
register call was never made.

Commit 2d838bb608e2d1f6cb4280e76748cb812dc822e7 fixed the same problem
for b43legacy.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Markus Kanet <dvmailing@gmx.eu>
Cc: Markus Kanet <dvmailing@gmx.eu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ath9k: use ieee80211_free_txskb 2012-10-21T16:32:41+00:00 Felix Fietkau nbd@openwrt.org 2012-10-03T19:07:52+00:00 e36434d7c5606b6e16d1851cc99c0325cff91447 commit 249ee72249140fe5b9adc988f97298f0aa5db2fc upstream. Using ieee80211_free_txskb for tx frames is required, since mac80211 clones skbs for which socket tx status is requested. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 249ee72249140fe5b9adc988f97298f0aa5db2fc upstream.

Using ieee80211_free_txskb for tx frames is required, since mac80211 clones
skbs for which socket tx status is requested.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ath9k: Disable ASPM only for AR9285 2012-10-07T15:39:33+00:00 Sujith Manoharan c_manoha@qualcomm.com 2012-09-21T18:44:28+00:00 1a7dcc9ae24f131dd2ee85eacc9c04d5562ef170 commit 046b6802c8d3c8a57448485513bf7291633e0fa3 upstream. Currently, ASPM is disabled for all WLAN+BT combo chipsets when BTCOEX is enabled. This is incorrect since the workaround is required only for WB195, which is a AR9285+AR3011 combo solution. Fix this by checking for the HW version when enabling the workaround. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Tested-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 046b6802c8d3c8a57448485513bf7291633e0fa3 upstream.

Currently, ASPM is disabled for all WLAN+BT combo chipsets
when BTCOEX is enabled. This is incorrect since the workaround
is required only for WB195, which is a AR9285+AR3011 combo
solution. Fix this by checking for the HW version when enabling
the workaround.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
b43legacy: Fix crash on unload when firmware not available 2012-10-07T15:39:32+00:00 Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net 2012-09-26T17:32:02+00:00 2975303676cea3f3d7cc076e32c1542637ef7edc commit 2d838bb608e2d1f6cb4280e76748cb812dc822e7 upstream. When b43legacy is loaded without the firmware being available, a following unload generates a kernel NULL pointer dereference BUG as follows: [ 214.330789] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000004c [ 214.330997] IP: [<c104c395>] drain_workqueue+0x15/0x170 [ 214.331179] *pde = 00000000 [ 214.331311] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 214.331471] Modules linked in: b43legacy(-) ssb pcmcia mac80211 cfg80211 af_packet mperf arc4 ppdev sr_mod cdrom sg shpchp yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc pci_hotplug pcmcia_core battery parport_pc parport floppy container ac button edd autofs4 ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common thermal processor scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh fan thermal_sys hwmon ata_generic pata_ali libata [last unloaded: cfg80211] [ 214.333421] Pid: 3639, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.6.0-rc6-wl+ #163 Source Technology VIC 9921/ALI Based Notebook [ 214.333580] EIP: 0060:[<c104c395>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 [ 214.333687] EIP is at drain_workqueue+0x15/0x170 [ 214.333788] EAX: c162ac40 EBX: cdfb8360 ECX: 0000002a EDX: 00002a2a [ 214.333890] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cd767e7c ESP: cd767e5c [ 214.333957] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 214.333957] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0000004c CR3: 0c96a000 CR4: 00000090 [ 214.333957] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 214.333957] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 214.333957] Process modprobe (pid: 3639, ti=cd766000 task=cf802e90 task.ti=cd766000) [ 214.333957] Stack: [ 214.333957] 00000292 cd767e74 c12c5e09 00000296 00000296 cdfb8360 cdfb9220 00000000 [ 214.333957] cd767e90 c104c4fd cdfb8360 cdfb9220 cd682800 cd767ea4 d0c10184 cd682800 [ 214.333957] cd767ea4 cba31064 cd767eb8 d0867908 cba31064 d087e09c cd96f034 cd767ec4 [ 214.333957] Call Trace: [ 214.333957] [<c12c5e09>] ? skb_dequeue+0x49/0x60 [ 214.333957] [<c104c4fd>] destroy_workqueue+0xd/0x150 [ 214.333957] [<d0c10184>] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0xc4/0x100 [mac80211] [ 214.333957] [<d0867908>] b43legacy_remove+0x78/0x80 [b43legacy] [ 214.333957] [<d083654d>] ssb_device_remove+0x1d/0x30 [ssb] [ 214.333957] [<c126f15a>] __device_release_driver+0x5a/0xb0 [ 214.333957] [<c126fb07>] driver_detach+0x87/0x90 [ 214.333957] [<c126ef4c>] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xe0 [ 214.333957] [<c1270120>] driver_unregister+0x40/0x70 [ 214.333957] [<d083686b>] ssb_driver_unregister+0xb/0x10 [ssb] [ 214.333957] [<d087c488>] b43legacy_exit+0xd/0xf [b43legacy] [ 214.333957] [<c1089dde>] sys_delete_module+0x14e/0x2b0 [ 214.333957] [<c110a4a7>] ? vfs_write+0xf7/0x150 [ 214.333957] [<c1240050>] ? tty_write_lock+0x50/0x50 [ 214.333957] [<c110a6f8>] ? sys_write+0x38/0x70 [ 214.333957] [<c1397c55>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 214.333957] Code: bc 27 00 00 00 00 a1 74 61 56 c1 55 89 e5 e8 a3 fc ff ff 5d c3 90 55 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 53 b8 40 ac 62 c1 83 ec 14 e8 bb b7 34 00 <8b> 46 4c 8d 50 01 85 c0 89 56 4c 75 03 83 0e 40 80 05 40 ac 62 [ 214.333957] EIP: [<c104c395>] drain_workqueue+0x15/0x170 SS:ESP 0068:cd767e5c [ 214.333957] CR2: 000000000000004c [ 214.341110] ---[ end trace c7e90ec026d875a6 ]---Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c The problem is fixed by making certain that the ucode pointer is not NULL before deregistering the driver in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 2d838bb608e2d1f6cb4280e76748cb812dc822e7 upstream.

When b43legacy is loaded without the firmware being available, a following
unload generates a kernel NULL pointer dereference BUG as follows:

[  214.330789] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000004c
[  214.330997] IP: [<c104c395>] drain_workqueue+0x15/0x170
[  214.331179] *pde = 00000000
[  214.331311] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  214.331471] Modules linked in: b43legacy(-) ssb pcmcia mac80211 cfg80211 af_packet mperf arc4 ppdev sr_mod cdrom sg shpchp yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc pci_hotplug pcmcia_core battery parport_pc parport floppy container ac button edd autofs4 ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common thermal processor scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh fan thermal_sys hwmon ata_generic pata_ali libata [last unloaded: cfg80211]
[  214.333421] Pid: 3639, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.6.0-rc6-wl+ #163 Source Technology VIC 9921/ALI Based Notebook
[  214.333580] EIP: 0060:[<c104c395>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[  214.333687] EIP is at drain_workqueue+0x15/0x170
[  214.333788] EAX: c162ac40 EBX: cdfb8360 ECX: 0000002a EDX: 00002a2a
[  214.333890] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cd767e7c ESP: cd767e5c
[  214.333957]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  214.333957] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0000004c CR3: 0c96a000 CR4: 00000090
[  214.333957] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[  214.333957] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[  214.333957] Process modprobe (pid: 3639, ti=cd766000 task=cf802e90 task.ti=cd766000)
[  214.333957] Stack:
[  214.333957]  00000292 cd767e74 c12c5e09 00000296 00000296 cdfb8360 cdfb9220 00000000
[  214.333957]  cd767e90 c104c4fd cdfb8360 cdfb9220 cd682800 cd767ea4 d0c10184 cd682800
[  214.333957]  cd767ea4 cba31064 cd767eb8 d0867908 cba31064 d087e09c cd96f034 cd767ec4
[  214.333957] Call Trace:
[  214.333957]  [<c12c5e09>] ? skb_dequeue+0x49/0x60
[  214.333957]  [<c104c4fd>] destroy_workqueue+0xd/0x150
[  214.333957]  [<d0c10184>] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0xc4/0x100 [mac80211]
[  214.333957]  [<d0867908>] b43legacy_remove+0x78/0x80 [b43legacy]
[  214.333957]  [<d083654d>] ssb_device_remove+0x1d/0x30 [ssb]
[  214.333957]  [<c126f15a>] __device_release_driver+0x5a/0xb0
[  214.333957]  [<c126fb07>] driver_detach+0x87/0x90
[  214.333957]  [<c126ef4c>] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xe0
[  214.333957]  [<c1270120>] driver_unregister+0x40/0x70
[  214.333957]  [<d083686b>] ssb_driver_unregister+0xb/0x10 [ssb]
[  214.333957]  [<d087c488>] b43legacy_exit+0xd/0xf [b43legacy]
[  214.333957]  [<c1089dde>] sys_delete_module+0x14e/0x2b0
[  214.333957]  [<c110a4a7>] ? vfs_write+0xf7/0x150
[  214.333957]  [<c1240050>] ? tty_write_lock+0x50/0x50
[  214.333957]  [<c110a6f8>] ? sys_write+0x38/0x70
[  214.333957]  [<c1397c55>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[  214.333957] Code: bc 27 00 00 00 00 a1 74 61 56 c1 55 89 e5 e8 a3 fc ff ff 5d c3 90 55 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 53 b8 40 ac 62 c1 83 ec 14 e8 bb b7 34 00 <8b> 46 4c 8d 50 01 85 c0 89 56 4c 75 03 83 0e 40 80 05 40 ac 62
[  214.333957] EIP: [<c104c395>] drain_workqueue+0x15/0x170 SS:ESP 0068:cd767e5c
[  214.333957] CR2: 000000000000004c
[  214.341110] ---[ end trace c7e90ec026d875a6 ]---Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c

The problem is fixed by making certain that the ucode pointer is not NULL
before deregistering the driver in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2012-09-22T16:19:22+00:00 John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com 2012-09-22T16:19:22+00:00 1199992df2417dc9a1db1b19930ea4d0a697a61e 






iwlwifi: don't double free the interrupt in failure path
2012-09-19T00:43:23+00:00

Emmanuel Grumbach
emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com

2012-09-18T17:48:59+00:00

a7be50b7e30f9d77cb059a7ffdb781bb0fb92eba

When the driver can't get the HW ready, we would release
the interrupt twice which made the kernel complain loudly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Brian Cockrell <brian.cockrell@intel.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cockrell <brian.cockrell@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>





When the driver can't get the HW ready, we would release
the interrupt twice which made the kernel complain loudly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Brian Cockrell <brian.cockrell@intel.com>
Tested-by: Brian Cockrell <brian.cockrell@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>







Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem
2012-09-14T15:39:39+00:00

John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

2012-09-14T15:39:39+00:00

7a253c2954dad9d70fa2e07b45b55ea4bee6c6c7