This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwlwifi: mvm: fix regulatory domain update when the firmware starts
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iwlwifi-mvm-fix-regulatory-domain-update-when-the-firmware-starts.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 82715ac71e6b94a2c2136e31f3a8e6748e33aa8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:16:54 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: fix regulatory domain update when the firmware starts
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 82715ac71e6b94a2c2136e31f3a8e6748e33aa8c upstream.
When the firmware starts, it doesn't have any regulatory
information, hence it uses the world wide limitations. The
driver can feed the firmware with previous knowledge that
was kept in the driver, but the firmware may still not
update its internal tables.
This happens when we start a BSS interface, and then the
firmware can change the regulatory tables based on our
location and it'll use more lenient, location specific
rules. Then, if the firmware is shut down (when the
interface is brought down), and then an AP interface is
created, the firmware will forget the country specific
rules.
The host will think that we are in a certain country that
may allow channels and will try to teach the firmware about
our location, but the firmware may still not allow to drop
the world wide limitations and apply country specific rules
because it was just re-started.
In this case, the firmware will reply with MCC_RESP_ILLEGAL
to the MCC_UPDATE_CMD. In that case, iwlwifi needs to let
the upper layers (cfg80211 / hostapd) know that the channel
list they know about has been updated.
This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201105
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 8 ++++++--
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/nvm.c | 5 ++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -327,8 +327,12 @@ struct ieee80211_regdomain *iwl_mvm_get_
goto out;
}
- if (changed)
- *changed = (resp->status == MCC_RESP_NEW_CHAN_PROFILE);
+ if (changed) {
+ u32 status = le32_to_cpu(resp->status);
+
+ *changed = (status == MCC_RESP_NEW_CHAN_PROFILE ||
+ status == MCC_RESP_ILLEGAL);
+ }
regd = iwl_parse_nvm_mcc_info(mvm->trans->dev, mvm->cfg,
__le32_to_cpu(resp->n_channels),
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/nvm.c
@@ -739,9 +739,8 @@ iwl_mvm_update_mcc(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
}
IWL_DEBUG_LAR(mvm,
- "MCC response status: 0x%x. new MCC: 0x%x ('%c%c') change: %d n_chans: %d\n",
- status, mcc, mcc >> 8, mcc & 0xff,
- !!(status == MCC_RESP_NEW_CHAN_PROFILE), n_channels);
+ "MCC response status: 0x%x. new MCC: 0x%x ('%c%c') n_chans: %d\n",
+ status, mcc, mcc >> 8, mcc & 0xff, n_channels);
exit:
iwl_free_resp(&cmd);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/iwlwifi-mvm-support-sta_statistics-even-on-older-firmware.patch
queue-4.9/iwlwifi-mvm-fix-regulatory-domain-update-when-the-firmware-starts.patch
