[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: Fix too long disable of IRQs" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: Fix too long disable of IRQs

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.1.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 8caf57eaaad2b49420455e8ec90992aa8ee3d5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:53:52 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: Fix too long disable of IRQs

commit 6b6392715856d563719991e9ce95e773491a8983 upstream.

In commit f78bccd79ba3cd9d9664981b501d57bdb81ab8a4 entitled "rtlwifi:
rtl8192ce: Fix too long disable of IRQs", Olivier Langlois
<olivier at trillion01.com> fixed a problem caused by an extra long disabling
of interrupts. This patch makes the same fix for rtl8188ee.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c
index e06971b..f923d8c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c
@@ -1025,9 +1025,20 @@ int rtl88ee_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	bool rtstatus = true;
 	int err = 0;
 	u8 tmp_u1b, u1byte;
+	unsigned long flags;

 	RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_INIT, DBG_LOUD, "Rtl8188EE hw init\n");
 	rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = true;
+	/* As this function can take a very long time (up to 350 ms)
+	 * and can be called with irqs disabled, reenable the irqs
+	 * to let the other devices continue being serviced.
+	 *
+	 * It is safe doing so since our own interrupts will only be enabled
+	 * in a subsequent step.
+	 */
+	local_save_flags(flags);
+	local_irq_enable();
+
 	rtlpriv->intf_ops->disable_aspm(hw);

 	tmp_u1b = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, REG_SYS_CLKR+1);
@@ -1043,7 +1054,7 @@ int rtl88ee_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	if (rtstatus != true) {
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Init MAC failed\n");
 		err = 1;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	}

 	err = rtl88e_download_fw(hw, false);
@@ -1051,8 +1062,7 @@ int rtl88ee_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_WARNING,
 			 "Failed to download FW. Init HW without FW now..\n");
 		err = 1;
-		rtlhal->fw_ready = false;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	} else {
 		rtlhal->fw_ready = true;
 	}
@@ -1135,10 +1145,12 @@ int rtl88ee_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	}
 	rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_NAV_CTRL+2,  ((30000+127)/128));
 	rtl88e_dm_init(hw);
+exit:
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = false;
 	RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_INIT, DBG_LOUD, "end of Rtl8188EE hw init %x\n",
 		 err);
-	return 0;
+	return err;
 }

 static enum version_8188e _rtl88ee_read_chip_version(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
--
1.9.1