[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "iwlwifi: don't WARN on host commands sent when firmware is dead" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iwlwifi: don't WARN on host commands sent when firmware is dead

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6dd37755d6b12cbd26268aa68798acdf945cbae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:37:17 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: don't WARN on host commands sent when firmware is dead

commit 8ca95995e64f5d270889badb3e449dca91106a2b upstream.

This triggers automatic bug reports and add no valuable
information. Print a simple error instead and drop the
host command.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
index 8d91422c..3dde033 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
@@ -606,8 +606,10 @@ static inline int iwl_trans_send_cmd(struct iwl_trans *trans,
 {
 	int ret;

-	WARN_ONCE(trans->state != IWL_TRANS_FW_ALIVE,
-		  "%s bad state = %d", __func__, trans->state);
+	if (trans->state != IWL_TRANS_FW_ALIVE) {
+		IWL_ERR(trans, "%s bad state = %d", __func__, trans->state);
+		return -EIO;
+	}

 	if (!(cmd->flags & CMD_ASYNC))
 		lock_map_acquire_read(&trans->sync_cmd_lockdep_map);
--
1.8.3.2