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From: Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:57:44 +1300
Subject: mac80211: add ieee80211_hw flag for QoS NDP support
Origin: https://git.kernel.org/linus/7c181f4fcdc62e5dc7a87fd33387d322262c3b52
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/891060
(Backport to v4.15.4)
Commit 7b6ddeaf27ec ("mac80211: use QoS NDP for AP probing") added an
argument qos_ok to ieee80211_nullfunc_get to support QoS NDP. Despite
the claim in the commit log "Change all the drivers to *not* allow
QoS NDP for now, even though it looks like most of them should be OK
with that", this commit enables QoS NDP in response to beacons (see
change to mlme.c:ieee80211_send_nullfunc), causing ath9k_htc to lose
IP connectivity. See:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10241109/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891060
Introduce a hardware flag to allow such buggy drivers to override the
correct default behaviour of mac80211 of sending QoS NDP packets.
Signed-off-by: Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
include/net/mac80211.h | 4 ++++
net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 1 +
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -2056,6 +2056,9 @@ struct ieee80211_txq {
* The stack will not do fragmentation.
* The callback for @set_frag_threshold should be set as well.
*
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_DOESNT_SUPPORT_QOS_NDP: The driver (or firmware) doesn't
+ * support QoS NDP for AP probing - that's most likely a driver bug.
+ *
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@@ -2098,6 +2101,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
IEEE80211_HW_TX_FRAG_LIST,
IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_LOW_ACK,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TX_FRAG,
+ IEEE80211_HW_DOESNT_SUPPORT_QOS_NDP,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[] = {
FLAG(TX_FRAG_LIST),
FLAG(REPORTS_LOW_ACK),
FLAG(SUPPORTS_TX_FRAG),
+ FLAG(DOESNT_SUPPORT_QOS_NDP),
#undef FLAG
};
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -895,7 +895,8 @@ void ieee80211_send_nullfunc(struct ieee
struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr *nullfunc;
struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd;
- skb = ieee80211_nullfunc_get(&local->hw, &sdata->vif, true);
+ skb = ieee80211_nullfunc_get(&local->hw, &sdata->vif,
+ !ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, DOESNT_SUPPORT_QOS_NDP));
if (!skb)
return;