[PATCH 4/4] wcn36xx: Put DXE block into reset before freeing memory

From: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
To: kvalo@codeaurora.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	wcn36xx@lists.infradead.org
Cc: loic.poulain@linaro.org, benl@squareup.com,
	daniel.thompson@linaro.org, bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] wcn36xx: Put DXE block into reset before freeing memory
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:17:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211015131741.2455824-5-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211015131741.2455824-1-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>

When deiniting the DXE hardware we should reset the block to ensure there
is no spurious DMA write transaction from the downstream WCNSS to upstream
MSM at a skbuff address we will have released.

This is actually a pretty serious bug. Immediately after the reset we
release skbs, skbs which are from the perspective of the WCNSS DXE still
valid addresses for DMA.

Without first placing the DXE block into reset, it is possible for an
upstream DMA transaction to write to skbs we have freed.

We have seen some backtraces from usage in testing on 50k+ devices which
indicates an invalid RX of an APs beacon to unmapped memory.

The logical conclusion is that an RX transaction happened to a region of
memory that was previously valid but was subsequently released.

The only time such a window of opportunity exists is when we have
deallocated the skbs attached to the DMA BDs in other words after doing
wcn36xx_stop().

If we free the skbs on the DMA channel, we need to make sure we have
quiesced potential DMA on that channel prior to freeing.

This patch should eliminate that error.

Fixes: 8e84c2582169 ("wcn36xx: mac80211 driver for Qualcomm WCN3660/WCN3680 hardware")
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c
index e89002502869a..56f605c23f36c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/dxe.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,8 @@ int wcn36xx_dxe_init(struct wcn36xx *wcn)
 
 void wcn36xx_dxe_deinit(struct wcn36xx *wcn)
 {
+	int reg_data = 0;
+
 	/* Disable channel interrupts */
 	wcn36xx_dxe_disable_ch_int(wcn, WCN36XX_INT_MASK_CHAN_RX_H);
 	wcn36xx_dxe_disable_ch_int(wcn, WCN36XX_INT_MASK_CHAN_RX_L);
@@ -1035,6 +1037,10 @@ void wcn36xx_dxe_deinit(struct wcn36xx *wcn)
 		wcn->tx_ack_skb = NULL;
 	}
 
+	/* Put the DXE block into reset before freeing memory */
+	reg_data = WCN36XX_DXE_REG_RESET;
+	wcn36xx_dxe_write_register(wcn, WCN36XX_DXE_REG_CSR_RESET, reg_data);
+
 	wcn36xx_dxe_ch_free_skbs(wcn, &wcn->dxe_rx_l_ch);
 	wcn36xx_dxe_ch_free_skbs(wcn, &wcn->dxe_rx_h_ch);
 
-- 
2.33.0

