2020-12-09 20:58:26

by Emmanuel Grumbach

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Subject: Re: [BUG] iwlwifi: card unusable after firmware crash

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:32 PM Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:19 PM Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 23:17:48 +0000 Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> > > Hi, Luca,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 16:27, Coelho, Luciano <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:27 +0000, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > [ 3174.003910] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
> > > > > [ 3174.003913] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)
> > > >
> > > > It looks like your machine is reporting RF-Kill to the WiFi device.
> > >
> > > Yes, that's an artifact of how I tested: I rebooted the router, the
> > > Wi-Fi interface disassociated and the dmesg was clean. However, after
> > > the router came up, the laptop didn't reconnect (and the connection
> > > had completely disappeared from nmtui). Afterwards, I did the rfkill
> > > cycle you see, and only then I got the register dump.
> > >
> > > > There seems to be some sort of race there that is causing us to still
> > > > try to communicate with the device (and thus you see the transaction
> > > > failed dump), but that will obviously fail when RF-Kill is enabled.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure about that, the card was already dead before the rfkill cycle.
> >
> > Any luck figuring this out, Luca? If this is a 5.10 regression we need
> > to let Linus know tomorrow, so the time is ticking :(
>
> Rui, I looked at the register dump and looks like you're using AMT on
> your system?
> Can you confirm?

Besides, don't you get a stack dump in the vicinity of this register
dump? That's be helpful to see.