Re: [PATCH 3/3] wifi: ath10k: don't arm the scan timeout for a scan that did not start

[Jeff Johnson]

On 11/5/2026 5:09 PM, Christopher Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> It looks more like a theoretical issue than something that is likely
>> to occur in practice, but the fix looks good to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
> Thanks for the review, Loic.
> 
> We did hit it on ath11k, and it did damage: on a QCN9074, a firmware
> crash failed a scan start with -110, the timeout was armed anyway, and
> it fired after the dead radio had been unbound, ending in "cannot queue
> ath11k_scan_timeout_work on wq" with a garbage workqueue, and a panic
> (that is patch 2/3).
> 
> Whether ath10k ever hits it I don't know, but the code is the same, so
> the fix can't hurt.
> 
> Christopher Griffin

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/jeff