Hello all,
I am using compat-wireless-2012-04-17 in a OpenWrt box, client mode,
kernel 2.6.33.
I arrange to run an active background scan every second under some load
(iperf UDP 40 Mbps).
I observed that the probes can be delayed due to two events flagged as
IEEE80211_STA_BEACON_POLL and IEEE80211_STA_CONNECTION_POLL. They make
__ieee80211_start_scan() return early in mac80211/scan.c when it is
called by ieee80211_request_scan().
When one of these events occurs, the function returns and
__ieee80211_start_scan() is reentered later, called this time by
ieee80211_scan_work(). Now if it finds the other event flagged, it
returns early but will never be called again. As a result later scan
requests result in a "EBUSY" error.
I made a workaround by always returning an error, but I am pretty sure
this is a wrong solution. I wonder if scan_work should not be
rescheduled in this case.
Here is my try:
==================
--- a/mac80211/scan.c 2012-05-31 18:37:41.000000000 +0200
+++ b/mac80211/scan.c 2012-05-31 18:37:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -413,10 +413,7 @@
return -EBUSY;
if (!ieee80211_can_scan(local, sdata)) {
- /* wait for the work to finish/time out */
- local->scan_req = req;
- local->scan_sdata = sdata;
- return 0;
+ return -EAGAIN;
}
if (local->ops->hw_scan) {
==================
Any thoughts / suggestions ?
Thanks,
Jean-Pierre Tosoni
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