Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path

From: Baochen Qiang
Date: Tue Feb 25 2025 - 20:56:51 EST




On 2/25/2025 1:34 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> If a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the
> IRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in
> ath11k_pci_alloc_msi(). This does no harm unless one of the functions
> requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ. This results in the
> below warning:
>
> WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 349 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1929 free_irq+0x278/0x29c
> Call trace:
> free_irq+0x278/0x29c
> ath11k_pcic_free_irq+0x70/0x10c [ath11k]
> ath11k_pci_probe+0x800/0x820 [ath11k_pci]
> local_pci_probe+0x40/0xbc
>
> The warning is due to not clearing the affinity hint before freeing the
> IRQs.
>
> So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling
> ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once
> again further down the error path due to code organization, but that does
> no harm.
>
> Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
>
> Cc: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 39564b475ac5 ("wifi: ath11k: fix boot failure with one MSI vector")
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
> index b93f04973ad7..eaac9eabcc70 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
> @@ -939,6 +939,8 @@ static int ath11k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> return 0;
>
> err_free_irq:
> + /* __free_irq() expects the caller to have cleared the affinity hint */
> + ath11k_pci_set_irq_affinity_hint(ab_pci, NULL);
> ath11k_pcic_free_irq(ab);
>
> err_ce_free:

Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>