The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 5e56276e7555b34550d51459a801ff75eca8b907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:11:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: don't allow sched scans without matches to be started The firmware can perform a scheduled scan with not matchsets passed, but it can't send notification that results were found. Since the userspace then cannot know when we got new results and the firmware wouldn't trigger a wake in case we are sleeping, it's better not to allow scans without matchsets. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110831 Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.17+] Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c index 9a15642f80dd..ea1e177c2ea1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c @@ -1298,6 +1298,10 @@ int iwl_mvm_sched_scan_start(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, return -EBUSY; } + /* we don't support "match all" in the firmware */ + if (!req->n_match_sets) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + ret = iwl_mvm_check_running_scans(mvm, type); if (ret) return ret; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html