mac80211: try to workaround some brcmfmac bug with handling interfaces

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>

SVN-Revision: 46278

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/862-brcmfmac-workaround-bug-with-some-inconsistent-BSSes.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/862-brcmfmac-workaround-bug-with-some-inconsistent-BSSes.patch
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+From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <zajec5@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 00:07:59 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: workaround bug with some inconsistent BSSes state
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+Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
+---
+
+--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+@@ -662,8 +662,36 @@ static struct wireless_dev *brcmf_cfg80211_add_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy,
+ 						     u32 *flags,
+ 						     struct vif_params *params)
+ {
++	struct net_device *dev;
+ 	struct wireless_dev *wdev;
+ 
++	/*
++	 * There is a bug with in-firmware BSS management. When adding virtual
++	 * interface brcmfmac first tells firmware to create new BSS and then
++	 * it creates new struct net_device.
++	 *
++	 * If creating/registering netdev(ice) fails, BSS remains in some bugged
++	 * state. It conflicts with existing BSSes by overtaking their auth
++	 * requests.
++	 *
++	 * It results in one BSS (addresss X) sending beacons and another BSS
++	 * (address Y) replying to authentication requests. This makes interface
++	 * unusable as AP.
++	 *
++	 * To workaround this bug we may try to guess if register_netdev(ice)
++	 * will fail. The most obvious case is using interface name that already
++	 * exists. This is actually quite likely with brcmfmac & some user space
++	 * scripts as brcmfmac doesn't allow deleting virtual interfaces.
++	 * So this bug can be triggered even by something trivial like:
++	 * iw dev wlan0 delete
++	 * iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type __ap
++	 */
++	dev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, name);
++	if (dev) {
++		dev_put(dev);
++		return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
++	}
++
+ 	brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "enter: %s type %d\n", name, type);
+ 	switch (type) {
+ 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: