mac80211: Restore vif beacon interval if start ap fails

Rakesh Pillai · jmberg-intel · commit 83e37e0bdd14 · 2019-02-15T13:30:24.000+01:00
The starting of AP interface can fail due to invalid beacon interval, which does not match the minimum gcd requirement set by the wifi driver. In such case, the beacon interval of that interface gets updated with that invalid beacon interval. The next time that interface is brought up in AP mode, an interface combination check is performed and the beacon interval is taken from the previously set value. In a case where an invalid beacon interval, i.e. a beacon interval value which does not satisfy the minimum gcd criteria set by the driver, is set, all the subsequent trials to bring that interface in AP mode will fail, even if the subsequent trials have a valid beacon interval. To avoid this, in case of a failure in bringing up an interface in AP mode due to interface combination error, the interface beacon interval which is stored in bss conf, needs to be restored with the last working value of beacon interval. Tested on ath10k using WCN3990. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0c317a0 ("cfg80211: support virtual interfaces with different beacon intervals") Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -941,6 +941,7 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 		      BSS_CHANGED_P2P_PS |
 		      BSS_CHANGED_TXPOWER;
 	int err;
+	int prev_beacon_int;
 
 	old = sdata_dereference(sdata->u.ap.beacon, sdata);
 	if (old)
@@ -963,6 +964,7 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 
 	sdata->needed_rx_chains = sdata->local->rx_chains;
 
+	prev_beacon_int = sdata->vif.bss_conf.beacon_int;
 	sdata->vif.bss_conf.beacon_int = params->beacon_interval;
 
 	if (params->he_cap)
@@ -974,8 +976,10 @@ static int ieee80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 	if (!err)
 		ieee80211_vif_copy_chanctx_to_vlans(sdata, false);
 	mutex_unlock(&local->mtx);
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		sdata->vif.bss_conf.beacon_int = prev_beacon_int;
 		return err;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Apply control port protocol, this allows us to
