From fd3667a8d1cb17f0a91771805be4efaa5c35cda1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 06:40:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: don't remove interface on link down firmware event MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There are two firmware events we handle similarly in brcmfmac: BRCMF_E_LINK and BRCMF_E_IF. The difference from firmware point of view is that the first one means BSS remains present in the firmware. Trying to (re)create it (e.g. when adding new virtual interface) will result in an error. Current code treats both events in a similar way. It removes Linux interface for each of them. It works OK with e.g. BCM43602. Its firmware generates both events for each interface. It means we get BRCMF_E_LINK and remove interface. That is soon followed by BRCMF_E_IF which means BSS was also removed in a firmware. The only downside of this is a harmless error like: [ 208.643180] brcmfmac: brcmf_fweh_call_event_handler: no interface object Unfortunately BCM4366 firmware doesn't automatically remove BSS and so it doesn't generate BRCMF_E_IF. In such case we incorrectly remove Linux interface on BRCMF_E_LINK as BSS is still present in the firmware. It results in an error when trying to re-create virtual interface, e.g.: > iw phy phy1 interface add wlan1-1 type __ap [ 3602.929199] brcmfmac: brcmf_ap_add_vif: timeout occurred command failed: I/O error (-5) With this patch we don't remove Linux interface while firmware keeps BSS. Thanks to this we keep a consistent states of host driver and device firmware. Further improvement should be to mark BSS as disabled and remove interface on BRCMF_E_LINK. Then we should add support for reusing BSS-es. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c index f533dc2ca23e..9651a7c2557b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c @@ -5432,7 +5432,6 @@ brcmf_notify_connect_status_ap(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg, struct net_device *ndev, const struct brcmf_event_msg *e, void *data) { - struct brcmf_if *ifp = netdev_priv(ndev); static int generation; u32 event = e->event_code; u32 reason = e->reason; @@ -5443,8 +5442,6 @@ brcmf_notify_connect_status_ap(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg, ndev != cfg_to_ndev(cfg)) { brcmf_dbg(CONN, "AP mode link down\n"); complete(&cfg->vif_disabled); - if (ifp->vif->mbss) - brcmf_remove_interface(ifp); return 0; } -- 2.20.1