This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mac80211: choose first enabled channel for monitor to the 5.10-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: mac80211-choose-first-enabled-channel-for-monitor.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5ef072789cfbb3f03c4a5ebada899da2921aba0a Author: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 11 10:59:07 2021 +0530 mac80211: choose first enabled channel for monitor [ Upstream commit 041c881a0ba8a75f71118bd9766b78f04beed469 ] Even if the first channel from sband channel list is invalid or disabled mac80211 ends up choosing it as the default channel for monitor interfaces, making them not usable. Fix this by assigning the first available valid or enabled channel instead. Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1615440547-7661-1-git-send-email-kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [reword commit message, comment, code cleanups] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 523380aed92e..19c093bb3876 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -982,8 +982,19 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) continue; if (!dflt_chandef.chan) { + /* + * Assign the first enabled channel to dflt_chandef + * from the list of channels + */ + for (i = 0; i < sband->n_channels; i++) + if (!(sband->channels[i].flags & + IEEE80211_CHAN_DISABLED)) + break; + /* if none found then use the first anyway */ + if (i == sband->n_channels) + i = 0; cfg80211_chandef_create(&dflt_chandef, - &sband->channels[0], + &sband->channels[i], NL80211_CHAN_NO_HT); /* init channel we're on */ if (!local->use_chanctx && !local->_oper_chandef.chan) {