netdev - Re: [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before WARN

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:56:00 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Rakesh Pillai <pillair@...eaurora.org>, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvalo@...eaurora.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, dianders@...omium.org, evgreen@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] mac80211: Add check for napi handle before WARN_ON

On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 22:44 +0530, Rakesh Pillai wrote:
> The function ieee80211_rx_napi can be now called
> from a thread context as well, with napi context
> being NULL.
> 
> Hence add the napi context check before giving out
> a warning for softirq count being 0.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.1-01040-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> index a88ab6f..1e703f1 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> @@ -4652,7 +4652,7 @@ void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
>  	struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband;
>  	struct ieee80211_rx_status *status = IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb);
>  
> -	WARN_ON_ONCE(softirq_count() == 0);
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(napi && softirq_count() == 0);

FWIW, I'm pretty sure this is incorrect - we make assumptions on
softirqs being disabled in mac80211 for serialization and in place of
some locking, I believe.

johannes