When the chip is in ELP mode read/write to FW is invalid and may cause the lower layers to get stuck. The reads/writes concerning ELP wakeup are the exception here and are checked for. In addition to blocking the IO, produce a warning. Signed-off-by: Barak Bercovitz Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller --- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/io.h | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/io.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/io.h @@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ static inline int __must_check wlcore_ra { int ret; - if (test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IO_FAILED, &wl->flags)) + if (test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IO_FAILED, &wl->flags) || + WARN_ON((test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IN_ELP, &wl->flags) && + addr != HW_ACCESS_ELP_CTRL_REG))) return -EIO; ret = wl->if_ops->write(wl->dev, addr, buf, len, fixed); @@ -76,7 +78,9 @@ static inline int __must_check wlcore_ra { int ret; - if (test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IO_FAILED, &wl->flags)) + if (test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IO_FAILED, &wl->flags) || + WARN_ON((test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IN_ELP, &wl->flags) && + addr != HW_ACCESS_ELP_CTRL_REG))) return -EIO; ret = wl->if_ops->read(wl->dev, addr, buf, len, fixed);