Re: [3.2-rc3] 100% CPU usage while in del_timer_sync fromiwl3945_rs_free_sta

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:10:28AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 29-11-11 12:39:07, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:07:27AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > [I am not sure whether this is ieee80211 or iwl3945 issue so put both
> > > maintainers into loop]
> > The only changed we had in iwlegacy between 3.1 and 3.2-rc, was only 
> > adjustment to mac80211 changes. However I think this is iwlegacy issue,
> > just for some reason bug did not trigger before.
> 
> I have double checked 3.1 and cannot reproduce it.
> Anyway, I have put:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-3945-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-3945-rs.c
> index 8faeaf2..9221ed4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-3945-rs.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-3945-rs.c
> @@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ static void iwl3945_rs_free_sta(void *iwl_priv, struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
>  	 * to use iwl_priv to print out debugging) since it may not be fully
>  	 * initialized at this point.
>  	 */
> +	printk("XXX: deleting time: %x\n", rs_sta->rate_scale_flush.base);
>  	del_timer_sync(&rs_sta->rate_scale_flush);
>  }
>  
> And the timer base is really NULL when the issue happens. So, somebody
> probably removed the timer already?

I think we call rs_ops->free_sta without rs_ops->alloc_sta, otherwise
I don't know how it could be NULL in iwl3945_rs_free_sta (excluding memory
corruption or bug in timer internals).

I suspect this could be a regression introduced by commit:

commit 07ba55d7f1d0da174c9bc545c713b44cee760197
Author: Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Sep 28 14:12:53 2011 +0300

    nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stations

I'm attaching patch with revert of relevant hunk, because full revert
would be hard currently. Does it workaround problem for you?

> > Is this problem 100% reproducible for you ? 
> 
> Yes, it seems to be sufficient to suspend to RAM while associated and
> turn off the AP before waking up the machine.
> I wasn't able to reproduce just by turning of the AP while associated
> without suspend.

I'm not able to recreate, but I'm not using your config as my system
user-space has problem to startup with it :-(

Stanislaw
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index b1b1bb3..f773dbb 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -1144,9 +1144,8 @@ static void ieee80211_set_disassoc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	changed |= BSS_CHANGED_BSSID | BSS_CHANGED_HT;
 	ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, changed);
 
-	/* remove AP and TDLS peers */
 	if (remove_sta)
-		sta_info_flush(local, sdata);
+		sta_info_destroy_addr(sdata, bssid);
 
 	del_timer_sync(&sdata->u.mgd.conn_mon_timer);
 	del_timer_sync(&sdata->u.mgd.bcn_mon_timer);