mac80211/cfg80211: update bss channel on channel switch
authorSergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:27:37 +0000 (09:27 +0000)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:02:11 +0000 (13:02 +0200)
FullMAC STAs have no way to update bss channel after CSA channel switch
completion. As a result, user-space tools may provide inconsistent
channel info. For instance, consider the following two commands:
$ sudo iw dev wlan0 link
$ sudo iw dev wlan0 info
The latter command gets channel info from the hardware, so most probably
its output will be correct. However the former command gets channel info
from scan cache, so its output will contain outdated channel info.
In fact, current bss channel info will not be updated until the
next [re-]connect.

Note that mac80211 STAs have a workaround for this, but it requires
access to internal cfg80211 data, see ieee80211_chswitch_work:

/* XXX: shouldn't really modify cfg80211-owned data! */
ifmgd->associated->channel = sdata->csa_chandef.chan;

This patch suggests to convert mac80211 workaround into cfg80211 behavior
and to update current bss channel in cfg80211_ch_switch_notify.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/mlme.c
net/wireless/nl80211.c

index 2dbcf5d5512efe26de6387cc851cd9fc801a1293..b7a9fe3d5fcb75dfb15e27c536d19066993b0c6d 100644 (file)
@@ -1188,9 +1188,6 @@ static void ieee80211_chswitch_work(struct work_struct *work)
                goto out;
        }
 
-       /* XXX: shouldn't really modify cfg80211-owned data! */
-       ifmgd->associated->channel = sdata->csa_chandef.chan;
-
        ifmgd->csa_waiting_bcn = true;
 
        ieee80211_sta_reset_beacon_monitor(sdata);
index ab9b095f6094bbc41528b5d068d1024c86ccfde7..e7984f025bc73703bc913d466ae826fb776f2d46 100644 (file)
@@ -15731,6 +15731,11 @@ void cfg80211_ch_switch_notify(struct net_device *dev,
 
        wdev->chandef = *chandef;
        wdev->preset_chandef = *chandef;
+
+       if (wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION &&
+           !WARN_ON(!wdev->current_bss))
+               wdev->current_bss->pub.channel = chandef->chan;
+
        nl80211_ch_switch_notify(rdev, dev, chandef, GFP_KERNEL,
                                 NL80211_CMD_CH_SWITCH_NOTIFY, 0);
 }