Re: AP + STA on DFS channel breaks DFS detection.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

I figure this is a horrible enough patch to increase my sin by top-posting.
Just FYI, this 'fixes' it on my system.  Something better is needed probably,
but after staring at this all day, this is the best I have:

iff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index e1d3705a166e0..00955d11901a9 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -1825,8 +1825,22 @@ static void handle_channel_single_rule(struct wiphy *wiphy,
                 return;
         }

-       chan->dfs_state = NL80211_DFS_USABLE;
-       chan->dfs_state_entered = jiffies;
+       /* HACK:  Work around problem where you have AP on DFS channel and then
+        * STA on different radio connects on same channel.  That causes regdom to change
+        * (or the code isn't smart enough to realize it didn't really change),
+        * because STA gets regdom from its AP, causing CAC to restart,
+        * which kills the AP interface before CAC can ever be finished.
+        * This is the one path that hits in my system, there are other places that may
+        * need latching too, and/or there is probably a better way to fix this.
+        * --Ben
+        */
+       if (chan->dfs_state != NL80211_DFS_AVAILABLE) {
+               chan->dfs_state = NL80211_DFS_USABLE;
+               chan->dfs_state_entered = jiffies;
+       } else {
+               pr_info("wiphy %s %pM: freq %d.%03d MHz: NOT setting DFS state back to baseline in single_rule, leave it latched at DFS_AVAILABLE.\n",
+                       dev_name(&wiphy->dev), wiphy->perm_addr, chan->center_freq, chan->freq_offset);
+       }

         chan->beacon_found = false;
         chan->flags = flags | bw_flags | map_regdom_flags(reg_rule->flags);

Thanks,
Ben

On 4/27/22 2:32 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> I am using 5.17.4+ kernel, MT7915 radios.  One radio (wiphy0) is acting as AP on
> channel 132.  It starts, does CAC and starts working fine.
> 
> Then, I bring up a station on wiphy1 (on same machine).  The STA connects to the AP
> on wiphy0 and starts running traffic for a short time (usually < 1 minute).  And then
> the AP gets stopped.  I don't think this is specific to connecting AP to STA on same machine,
> probably if STA connected to another AP on channel 132 it would have same issue.
> 
> I think I have tracked this down by adding prints and WARN_ON to find
> the interesting state changes.  It looks like when the STA changes its
> regdom (probably because it is admin-up and/or associated to the AP), then the state of the
> channel's dfs_state is reset.  Channel objects are per band, not per wiphy.
> 
> And then a bit later, a timer kicks off and decides that CAC has not completed
> (because it already completed earlier on the AP, but chan->dfs_state was lost,
> and STA will not do CAC anyway.)
> 
> So, question is, how in the world to fix this properly!
> 
> 2818 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: cfg80211: handle-single-rule: wiphy0 chan: 00000000d9f5550d  old_state: 2  new: DFS_USABLE
> 2819 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 2820 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 75 at net/wireless/reg.c:1830 wiphy_update_regulatory.cold.32+0x3ba/0x796 [cfg80211]
> 2821 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_raw xt_CT nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 
> libcrc32c          bpfilter vrf 8021q garp mrp stp llc macvlan pktgen rpcrdma rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core pcengines_apuv2 gpio_keys_polled leds_gpio 
> gpio_amd_fch amd64_edac             edac_mce_amd kvm_amd mt7915e kvm irqbypass bfq mt76_connac_lib mt76 mac80211 fam15h_power k10temp i2c_piix4 cfg80211 
> acpi_cpufreq nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl            sch_fq_codel lockd grace drm fuse agpgart sunrpc zram sdhci_pci cqhci sdhci igb hwmon i2c_algo_bit mmc_core 
> sp5100_tco dca xhci_pci xhci_pci_renesas ccp              i2c_core [last unloaded: nfnetlink]
> 2822 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 75 Comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G        W         5.17.4+ #14
> 2823 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: Hardware name: PC Engines APU2/APU2, BIOS 4.0.7 02/28/2017
> 2824 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: Workqueue: events reg_regdb_apply [cfg80211]
> 2825 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: RIP: 0010:wiphy_update_regulatory.cold.32+0x3ba/0x796 [cfg80211]
> 2826 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: sta03000: Limiting TX power to 20 (23 - 3) dBm as advertised by 00:0a:52:06:9f:10
> 2827 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: Code: 48 8b b3 c8 01 00 00 48 85 f6 0f 84 a8 00 00 00 41 8b 4e 2c 4c 89 f2 48 c7 c7 20 10 51 a0 e8 7e 70 6d e1 41 83 7e 
> 2c        02 75 02 <0f> 0b 48 8b 05 b8 25 30 e2 8b 4c 24 24 41 c7 46 2c 00 00 00 00 41
> 2828 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffc90000297dc0 EFLAGS: 00010246
> 2829 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: RAX: 000000000000005a RBX: ffff88810bca03a0 RCX: 0000000000000027
> 2830 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88811ac9c440 RDI: ffff88811ac9c448
> 2831 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffdfff
> 2832 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffc90000297bf0 R12: ffff8880141a399c
> 2833 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: R13: ffff88810c3803a0 R14: ffff88810ac00c28 R15: 0000000000565d60
> 2834 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811ac80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> 2835 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> 2836 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: CR2: 00005601e502dba0 CR3: 000000000bf36000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
> 2837 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: Call Trace:
> 2838 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  <TASK>
> 2839 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  update_all_wiphy_regulatory+0x2e/0x90 [cfg80211]
> 2840 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  set_regdom+0x101/0x420 [cfg80211]
> 2841 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  reg_regdb_apply+0x65/0x90 [cfg80211]
> 2842 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  process_one_work+0x21a/0x3f0
> 2843 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
> 2844 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  worker_thread+0x28/0x3a0
> 2845 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  ? process_one_work+0x3f0/0x3f0
> 2846 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  kthread+0xd2/0x100
> 2847 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
> 2848 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> 2849 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel:  </TASK>
> 2850 Apr 27 14:20:42 lf0350-9634 kernel: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
>