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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2025-10-19 11:50:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2025-10-27 11:17:11 +0300 |
| commit | 8f24be708829854560e1db9f765c51305b046183 (patch) | |
| tree | 8662af93905d4925071d9e9517b0430071e35a07 | |
| parent | a3b16dfe79eecafea0e058b038bb506ed9bd2c89 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8f24be708829854560e1db9f765c51305b046183.tar.xz | |
wifi: mac80211: reset CRC valid after CSA
While waiting for a beacon after CSA, reset the CRC valid
so that the next beacon is handled even if it happens to
be identical the last one on the old channel. This is an
AP bug either way, but it's better to disconnect cleanly
than to have lingering CSA state.
In the iwlwifi instantiation of this problem, mac80211 is
ignoring the beacon but the firmware creates a new CSA,
and then crashes later because mac80211/driver didn't do
anything about it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251019115024.521ad9c6b87d.I86376900df3d3423185b75bf63358c29f33a5eb6@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mlme.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 3b5827ea438e..e699702fe5b1 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -2508,6 +2508,16 @@ static void ieee80211_csa_switch_work(struct wiphy *wiphy, link->u.mgd.csa.waiting_bcn = true; + /* + * The next beacon really should always be different, so this should + * have no effect whatsoever. However, some APs (we observed this in + * an Asus AXE11000), the beacon after the CSA might be identical to + * the last beacon on the old channel - in this case we'd ignore it. + * Resetting the CRC will lead us to handle it better (albeit with a + * disconnect, but clearly the AP is broken.) + */ + link->u.mgd.beacon_crc_valid = false; + /* apply new TPE restrictions immediately on the new channel */ if (link->u.mgd.csa.ap_chandef.chan->band == NL80211_BAND_6GHZ && link->u.mgd.conn.mode >= IEEE80211_CONN_MODE_HE) { |