On 10/5/2022 9:58 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
"Lin Ian (CSSITB CSS ICW SW WFS / EE)" <ian.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 9/28/2022 6:07 PM, Lin Ian (CSSITB CSS ICW SW WFS / EE) wrote:
On 9/28/2022 2:38 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
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Ian Lin <ian.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
From: Syed Rafiuddeen <syed.rafiuddeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cfg80211 layer on DUT STA is disconnecting ongoing connection
attempt after
receiving association response, because cfg80211 layer does not
have valid
AP bss information. On association response event, brcmfmac
communicates
the AP bss information to cfg80211 layer, but SSID seem to be
empty in AP
bss information, and cfg80211 layer prints kernel warning and then
disconnects the ongoing connection attempt.
SSID is empty in SSID IE, but 'bi->SSID' contains a valid SSID, so
updating the SSID for hidden AP while informing its bss information
to cfg80211 layer.
Signed-off-by: Syed Rafiuddeen <syed.rafiuddeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chung-Hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Lin <ian.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 8
++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git
a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 6c37da42e61b..3560afe0ccfe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -3003,6 +3003,7 @@ static s32 brcmf_inform_single_bss(struct
brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg,
u8 *notify_ie;
size_t notify_ielen;
struct cfg80211_inform_bss bss_data = {};
+ struct brcmf_tlv *ssid;
if (le32_to_cpu(bi->length) > WL_BSS_INFO_MAX) {
bphy_err(drvr, "Bss info is larger than buffer.
Discarding\n");
@@ -3032,6 +3033,13 @@ static s32 brcmf_inform_single_bss(struct
brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg,
notify_ielen = le32_to_cpu(bi->ie_length);
bss_data.signal = (s16)le16_to_cpu(bi->RSSI) * 100;
+ ssid = (struct brcmf_tlv *)
+ brcmf_parse_tlvs(notify_ie, notify_ielen, WLAN_EID_SSID);
This still casts away the const. For some reason brcmf_parse_tlvs()
takes a const buffer:
static const struct brcmf_tlv *brcmf_parse_tlvs(const void *buf,
int buflen, uint key)
I'm not familiar with brcmfmac internal so I don't know why it does
that, but that means the buffer cannot be modified. If you need to
modify the ssid should you make a copy of it?
In brcmf_parse_tlvs(const void *buf, int buflen, uint key),
it will find the key in buf and return the address of this key, as
the return pointer.
This function don't intend caller to modify content of buf in most
cases, so it defines a const return pointer.
But in this case, it just need to do it, so I need the typecast here.
Do you accept the typecast here?
To me writing a const data is wrong. IIRC it was something like six
months ago that rtw89 was also writing a const variable and it caused a
crash because the memory was in a read-only area (or something like
that).
So how should this be solved. The pointer returned by the
brcmf_parse_tlvs() function is pointing inside the buffer passed as
first argument, ie. notify_ie which is non-const. So it is perfectly
safe to do the cast as suggested here. We could do a pointer-arithmetic
dance here to avoid the cast, but that only make things more obscure.
Regards,
Arend
