Hello, I have: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13d3:3327 IMC Networks AW-NU137 802.11bgn Wireless Module [Atheros AR9271] On 5.4.47 it no longer works at all: [ 37.104168] usb 1-2.2: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested [ 37.104991] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc [ 37.412791] usb 1-2.2: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw, size: 51008 [ 37.693289] ath9k_htc 1-2.2:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits [ 148.871980] ath9k_htc: Failed to initialize the device [ 148.872155] usb 1-2.2: ath9k_htc: USB layer deinitialized Rolling back to 5.4.44 makes it work again: [ 37.294753] usb 1-2.2: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested [ 37.295356] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc [ 37.589345] usb 1-2.2: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw, size: 51008 [ 37.841053] ath9k_htc 1-2.2:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits [ 38.121058] ath9k_htc 1-2.2:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.4 [ 38.121160] ath9k_htc 1-2.2:1.0: FW RMW support: On [ 38.121237] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60 [ 38.121239] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map [ 38.121243] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00 [ 38.121245] ath: Regpair used: 0x60 It is not practical to bisect for me right now, as it is a remote machine. But releases 45 and 46 did not have ath9k changes, while the 47th had quite a lot.
Dear Qiujun Huang could you please take a look? Thanks
This also affects the latest stable kernel 5.7.4. I am bisecting this to find the bad commit, but I am using an old Core 2 Duo, so this will take some time.
(In reply to Viktor Jägersküpper from comment #2) > This also affects the latest stable kernel 5.7.4. I am bisecting this to > find the bad commit, but I am using an old Core 2 Duo, so this will take > some time. Confirmed for 5.7.3 (where ath9k changes were made) and 5.6.19 (didn't try 5.6.18 where equivalent changes to 5.7.3 occurred).
For me ath9k also does not work in 5.7.3. Works fine after downgrading to 5.7.2. I didn't post a separate bug though probably it's another problem because I couldn't find any useful info actually. There are no error messages in systemd log. After I plugin the usb adapter in the latest message is that it has successfully sent firmware and no errors appear. But no device is created after plugging the device in, as if udev would ignore it somehow.
@Alexander: It is probably the same problem. If you look closely at dmesg in the bug report, you see that the failure message appears only almost 2 minutes after the firmware message. Maybe it's the same for you too (and you didn't wait for it long enough to recheck the logs)?
The first bad commit according to my bisection (using the linux-5.7.y branch) is: 6602f080cb28745259e2fab1a4cf55eeb5894f93 (ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb) This relates to commit 2bbcaaee1fcbd83272e29f31e2bb7e70d8c49e05 upstream. I will test if reverting the commit helps (again on the linux-5.7.y branch, currently at the 5.7.4 release).
Hi, I can confirm this issue and did bisecting myself and ended up with the same commit. Reported it on bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848631 Hope I could help.
Also affected: 5.6.19 and 5.8.0-rc1/2
> I will test if reverting the commit helps Yes I confirm that reverting the mentioned commit restores the device operation on 5.4.47. Thanks
Reverting the commit also solves the problem for 5.7.4.
Unsurprisingly, reverting commit 6602f080cb28745259e2fab1a4cf55eeb5894f93 unbreaks this driver for 5.7.4
Discussed as well in: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAEJqkgjV8p6LtBV8YUGbNb0vYzKOQt4-AMAvYw5mzFr3eicyTg@mail.gmail.com/
I can confirm it for TP-Link TL-WN722N: Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0cf3:9271 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 802.11n Reverting the commit solves the problem for 5.7.6-arch1-1.
I really tried to find the answer by myself but... What does reverting the commit means? Reverting changes I believe, but is that mean that I can update kernel and revert changes only for atheros? Currently I have my kernel downgraded to Las working for me version so I have 5.4.46 currently.
@lacov@o2.pl remove the commit that caused the trouble. Than compile it against your kernel and replace the broken code one with the compiled new one.
Is this going to be fixed and released for everyone or we manually revert and compile the kernel if we have this problem? No change in yesterday kernel update.
I am preparing a patch which reverts the mentioned commit because I don't see any fix on the mailing lists. The patch will land in the mainline kernel first and then be picked up for the stable and longterm kernel releases.
(In reply to Viktor Jägersküpper from comment #17) > I am preparing a patch which reverts the mentioned commit because I don't > see any fix on the mailing lists. The patch will land in the mainline kernel > first and then be picked up for the stable and longterm kernel releases. Thanks. I asked because the mentioned commit fixes something but brakes something else. Reverting it isn't an universal fix.
Roman reported this bug in the email thread which proposed the broken patch and a kernel developer asked for a patch to revert the mentioned commit if there is no proper fix, see here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/87lfkff9qe.fsf@codeaurora.org/
Any news about this? It's been broken for so long and if the solution it's just a patch to revert one commit, I don't see why it should take that long.
If Kalle Valo (ath9k maintainer) doesn't reply today, I will ask David Miller (networking maintainer who merged Kalle's tree) to revert the commit or to forward this issue to Linus Torvalds. Any of them should deal with this in the end.
There was a report that it was fixed in 5.7.8. Please check: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67041#comment190998
Arch Linux just picked up Viktor's revert by themselves, not waiting for mainline: https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.7.8-arch1&id=1a32e7b57b0b37cab6845093920b4d1ff94d3bf4 There are no ath9k changes in the mainline 5.7.8.
First of all thank you to everyone involved for the bisecting and for submitting the revert upstream. Tip for next time, for stable regressions please send an email to stable@vger.kernel.org with a subject of "Please revert "patch subject" from the stable kernels" that is the quickest way to get troublesome patches dropped from the stable series. I've send an email to Greg Kroah-Hartman / stable@vger.kernel.org asking for the offending commit to be reverted. I've pointed him to: https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.7.8-arch1&id=1a32e7b57b0b37cab6845093920b4d1ff94d3bf4 So that he can cherry-pick that and credit those involved in figuring out the problem. I expect the revert to show up in 5.7.9 and other upcoming stable releases.
Someone posted a patch to fix this properly (i.e. via a revert), which fixes the issue for me. Please test the fix if you can (ideally with the mainline kernel from Linus Torvalds's branch): https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11657669/ You can add the "Tested-By" line then in your reply to the corresponding e-mail.
> Someone posted a patch to fix this properly (i.e. via a revert) This should read "not via a revert" of course.
I forgot that the revert indeed landed in the 5.7.9, 5.4.52 and 4.19.133 releases (it is also queued for the older longterm kernels), so you would have to test with an older release of the stable (i.e. <=5.7.8) and longterm kernels, but that is not the recommended way to test this fix. So you should really test with the 5.8 pre-release mainline kernel.
5.7.9 landed in Fedora 32 recently and I can confirm that the patch has restored functionality: [ 44.574618] usb 3-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested [ 44.577810] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc [ 44.859691] usb 3-1: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw, size: 51008 [ 45.111509] ath9k_htc 3-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits [ 45.375128] ath9k_htc 3-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.4 [ 45.375129] ath9k_htc 3-1:1.0: FW RMW support: On Thanks to all that made this possible.
Confirming that 5.7.9 solved the issue for me.
The original patch (which caused the problems) and the fix by Mark O'Donovan are now included in the stable and longterm kernels (5.7.11, 5.4.54, 4.19.135, 4.14.190, 4.9.232, 4.4.232 and higher).
As mentioned in comment 30, this is fixed now, so lets close it.