Re: [PATCH v6] ath9k: sleep for less time when unregistering hwrng

[Gregory Erwin]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:18 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Even though hwrng provides a `wait` parameter, it doesn't work very well
> > when waiting for a long time. There are numerous deadlocks that emerge
> > related to shutdown. Work around this API limitation by waiting for a
> > shorter amount of time and erroring more frequently. This commit also
> > prevents hwrng from splatting messages to dmesg when there's a timeout
> > and switches to using schedule_timeout_interruptible(), so that the
> > kthread can be stopped.
> >
> > Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: fcd09c90c3c5 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Gregory, care to take this version for a spin as well to double-check
> that it still resolves the issue? :)
>
> -Toke
>

With patch v6, reads from /dev/hwrng block for 5-6s, during which 'ip link set
wlan0 down' will also block. Otherwise, 'ip link set wlan0 down' returns
immediately. Similarly, wiphy_suspend() consistently returns in under 10ms.

Tested-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@xxxxxxxxx>