Re: mac80211/ath11k regression in next-20220720

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Jul 22 2022 - 04:07:07 EST


On Fri, 2022-07-22 at 10:05 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > We think the "fix" is this:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/commit/?h=mld&id=dd5a559d8e90fdb9424e0580b91702c5838928dc
> >
> > Do you want to try it?
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. And yes, that fixes the problem.

OK great, thanks for checking!

> I apparently failed to apply all commits from that mld branch, but this
> one alone fixes it.

OK, I'll check later.

> > Note that if that fixes it, it's still a bug in the driver, but one that
> > you'd otherwise not hit.
>
> Yeah, those warnings looked like secondary issues if that's what you're
> referring to?

No, I mean there are legitimate cases where override==true, and then the
driver breaks. It's just uncommon (I think perhaps only specific
userspace [debug] configurations), but it could happen.

johannes