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[PATCH 7.0 0116/1146] wifi: mt76: fix deadlock in remain-on-channel

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-05-20 16:30:42
Also in: stable
Subsystem: mediatek mt76 wireless lan driver, the rest · Maintainers: Felix Fietkau, Lorenzo Bianconi, Ryder Lee, Linus Torvalds

7.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chad Monroe <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 6939b97ddad3cf3dfbb3b5a0a12ef79cb886747e ]

mt76_remain_on_channel() and mt76_roc_complete() call mt76_set_channel()
while already holding dev->mutex. Since mt76_set_channel() also acquires
dev->mutex, this results in a deadlock.

Use __mt76_set_channel() instead of mt76_set_channel().
Add cancel_delayed_work_sync() for mac_work before acquiring the mutex
in mt76_remain_on_channel() to prevent a secondary deadlock with the
mac_work workqueue.

Fixes: a8f424c1287c ("wifi: mt76: add multi-radio remain_on_channel functions")
Signed-off-by: Chad Monroe <redacted>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ace737e7b621af7c2adb33b0188011a5c1de2166.1765204256.git.chad@monroe.io
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/channel.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/channel.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/channel.c
index 2b705bdb7993c..d9f8529db7ed4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/channel.c
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ void mt76_roc_complete(struct mt76_phy *phy)
 		mlink->mvif->roc_phy = NULL;
 	if (phy->main_chandef.chan &&
 	    !test_bit(MT76_MCU_RESET, &dev->phy.state))
-		mt76_set_channel(phy, &phy->main_chandef, false);
+		__mt76_set_channel(phy, &phy->main_chandef, false);
 	mt76_put_vif_phy_link(phy, phy->roc_vif, phy->roc_link);
 	phy->roc_vif = NULL;
 	phy->roc_link = NULL;
@@ -370,6 +370,8 @@ int mt76_remain_on_channel(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
 	if (!phy)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phy->mac_work);
+
 	mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
 
 	if (phy->roc_vif || dev->scan.phy == phy ||
@@ -388,7 +390,14 @@ int mt76_remain_on_channel(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
 	phy->roc_vif = vif;
 	phy->roc_link = mlink;
 	cfg80211_chandef_create(&chandef, chan, NL80211_CHAN_HT20);
-	mt76_set_channel(phy, &chandef, true);
+	ret = __mt76_set_channel(phy, &chandef, true);
+	if (ret) {
+		mlink->mvif->roc_phy = NULL;
+		phy->roc_vif = NULL;
+		phy->roc_link = NULL;
+		mt76_put_vif_phy_link(phy, vif, mlink);
+		goto out;
+	}
 	ieee80211_ready_on_channel(hw);
 	ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(phy->hw, &phy->roc_work,
 				     msecs_to_jiffies(duration));
-- 
2.53.0


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