This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mwifiex: Properly initialize private structure on interface type changes to the 4.14-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: mwifiex-properly-initialize-private-structure-on-int.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 68b01e031a1bb90cd0bae8c0860c7de3096742d8 Author: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 14 21:59:08 2021 +0200 mwifiex: Properly initialize private structure on interface type changes [ Upstream commit c606008b70627a2fc485732a53cc22f0f66d0981 ] When creating a new virtual interface in mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(), we update our internal driver states like bss_type, bss_priority, bss_role and bss_mode to reflect the mode the firmware will be set to. When switching virtual interface mode using mwifiex_init_new_priv_params() though, we currently only update bss_mode and bss_role. In order for the interface mode switch to actually work, we also need to update bss_type to its proper value, so do that. This fixes a crash of the firmware (because the driver tries to execute commands that are invalid in AP mode) when switching from station mode to AP mode. Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914195909.36035-9-verdre@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index 7bdcbe79d963d..a88bddc383894 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -898,16 +898,20 @@ mwifiex_init_new_priv_params(struct mwifiex_private *priv, switch (type) { case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: - priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_STA; + priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_STA; + priv->bss_type = MWIFIEX_BSS_TYPE_STA; break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT: - priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_STA; + priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_STA; + priv->bss_type = MWIFIEX_BSS_TYPE_P2P; break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO: - priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_UAP; + priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_UAP; + priv->bss_type = MWIFIEX_BSS_TYPE_P2P; break; case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP: priv->bss_role = MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_UAP; + priv->bss_type = MWIFIEX_BSS_TYPE_UAP; break; default: mwifiex_dbg(adapter, ERROR,