Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: fix rx completion meta data corruption

[Johan Hovold]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 08:03:15AM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 3/21/2025 7:53 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Add the missing memory barrier to make sure that the REO dest ring
> > descriptor is read after the head pointer to avoid using stale data on
> > weakly ordered architectures like aarch64.
> > 
> > This may fix the ring-buffer corruption worked around by commit
> > f9fff67d2d7c ("wifi: ath11k: Fix SKB corruption in REO destination
> > ring") by silently discarding data, and may possibly also address user
> > reported errors like:
> > 
> > 	ath11k_pci 0006:01:00.0: msdu_done bit in attention is not set
> > 
> > Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.41
> > 
> > Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	# 5.6
> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218005
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Does this supersede:
> [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: fix ring-buffer corruption

No, this is a separate fix. There are more places where barriers are
missing, I'll try send some further fixes during the week as well.

Johan