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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 27/56] ath10k: prevent active scans on potential unusable channels
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:42:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180917213829.060821040@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180917213827.913122591@linuxfoundation.org>

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

------------------

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>

[ Upstream commit 3f259111583801013cb605bb4414aa529adccf1c ]

The QCA4019 hw1.0 firmware 10.4-3.2.1-00050 and 10.4-3.5.3-00053 (and most
likely all other) seem to ignore the WMI_CHAN_FLAG_DFS flag during the
scan. This results in transmission (probe requests) on channels which are
not "available" for transmissions.

Since the firmware is closed source and nothing can be done from our side
to fix the problem in it, the driver has to work around this problem. The
WMI_CHAN_FLAG_PASSIVE seems to be interpreted by the firmware to not
scan actively on a channel unless an AP was detected on it. Simple probe
requests will then be transmitted by the STA on the channel.

ath10k must therefore also use this flag when it queues a radar channel for
scanning. This should reduce the chance of an active scan when the channel
might be "unusable" for transmissions.

Fixes: e8a50f8ba44b ("ath10k: introduce DFS implementation")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -2901,6 +2901,13 @@ static int ath10k_update_channel_list(st
 			passive = channel->flags & IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR;
 			ch->passive = passive;
 
+			/* the firmware is ignoring the "radar" flag of the
+			 * channel and is scanning actively using Probe Requests
+			 * on "Radar detection"/DFS channels which are not
+			 * marked as "available"
+			 */
+			ch->passive |= ch->chan_radar;
+
 			ch->freq = channel->center_freq;
 			ch->band_center_freq1 = channel->center_freq;
 			ch->min_power = 0;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-17 22:41 [PATCH 4.4 00/56] 4.4.157-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 01/56] i2c: xiic: Make the start and the byte count write atomic Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 02/56] i2c: i801: fix DNVs SMBCTRL register offset Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 03/56] ALSA: hda - Fix cancel_work_sync() stall from jackpoll work Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 04/56] cfq: Give a chance for arming slice idle timer in case of group_idle Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 05/56] kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 06/56] kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 07/56] staging: rt5208: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in xd_copy_page Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 08/56] staging/rts5208: Fix read overflow in memcpy Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 09/56] block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 10/56] locking/rwsem-xadd: Fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 11/56] selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 12/56] locking/osq_lock: Fix osq_lock queue corruption Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 13/56] ARC: [plat-axs*]: Enable SWAP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 14/56] misc: mic: SCIF Fix scif_get_new_port() error handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 15/56] ethtool: Remove trailing semicolon for static inline Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 16/56] Bluetooth: h5: Fix missing dependency on BT_HCIUART_SERDEV Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 17/56] gpio: tegra: Move driver registration to subsys_init level Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 18/56] scsi: target: fix __transport_register_session locking Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 19/56] md/raid5: fix data corruption of replacements after originals dropped Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 20/56] misc: ti-st: Fix memory leak in the error path of probe() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 21/56] uio: potential double frees if __uio_register_device() fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 22/56] tty: rocket: Fix possible buffer overwrite on register_PCI Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 23/56] f2fs: do not set free of current section Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 24/56] perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 25/56] NFSv4.0 fix client reference leak in callback Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.4 26/56] macintosh/via-pmu: Add missing mmio accessors Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 28/56] MIPS: Fix ISA virt/bus conversion for non-zero PHYS_OFFSET Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 29/56] ata: libahci: Correct setting of DEVSLP register Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 30/56] scsi: 3ware: fix return 0 on the error path of probe Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 31/56] ath10k: disable bundle mgmt tx completion event support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 32/56] Bluetooth: hidp: Fix handling of strncpy for hid->name information Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 33/56] x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 34/56] gpio: ml-ioh: Fix buffer underwrite on probe error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 35/56] net: mvneta: fix mtu change on port without link Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 36/56] MIPS: Octeon: add missing of_node_put() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 37/56] net: dcb: For wild-card lookups, use priority -1, not 0 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 38/56] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - only use first T9 instance Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 39/56] partitions/aix: append null character to print data from disk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 40/56] partitions/aix: fix usage of uninitialized lv_info and lvname structures Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 41/56] iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix allocation in atomic context Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 42/56] mfd: ti_am335x_tscadc: Fix struct clk memory leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 43/56] f2fs: fix to do sanity check with {sit,nat}_ver_bitmap_bytesize Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 44/56] MIPS: WARN_ON invalid DMA cache maintenance, not BUG_ON Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 45/56] RDMA/cma: Do not ignore net namespace for unbound cm_id Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 46/56] xhci: Fix use-after-free in xhci_free_virt_device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 47/56] vmw_balloon: include asm/io.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 48/56] netfilter: x_tables: avoid stack-out-of-bounds read in xt_copy_counters_from_user Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 49/56] drivers: net: cpsw: fix parsing of phy-handle DT property in dual_emac config Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 50/56] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix mdio device reference leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 51/56] ethernet: ti: davinci_emac: add missing of_node_put after calling of_parse_phandle Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 52/56] crypto: vmx - Fix sleep-in-atomic bugs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 53/56] mtd: ubi: wl: Fix error return code in ubi_wl_init() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 54/56] autofs: fix autofs_sbi() does not check super block type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 55/56] x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.4 56/56] mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 23:58 ` [PATCH 4.4 00/56] 4.4.157-stable review Nathan Chancellor
2018-09-18 16:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-18 16:56 ` Naresh Kamboju

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