This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
brcmfmac: handle IF event for P2P_DEVICE interface
to the 3.16-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:
brcmfmac-handle-if-event-for-p2p_device-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 87c4790330810fe5caf0172d9320cf24ef19cebe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:19:30 +0200
Subject: brcmfmac: handle IF event for P2P_DEVICE interface
From: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 87c4790330810fe5caf0172d9320cf24ef19cebe upstream.
The firmware notifies about interface changes through the IF event
which has a NO_IF flag that means host can ignore the event. This
behaviour was introduced in the driver by:
commit 2ee8382fc6c763c76396a6aaff77a27089eed3aa
Author: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Aug 10 12:27:24 2013 +0200
brcmfmac: ignore IF event if firmware indicates it
It turns out that the IF event for the P2P_DEVICE also has this
flag set, but the event should not be ignored in this scenario.
The mentioned commit caused a regression in 3.12 kernel in creation
of the P2P_DEVICE interface.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c | 12 +++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
@@ -185,7 +185,13 @@ static void brcmf_fweh_handle_if_event(s
ifevent->action, ifevent->ifidx, ifevent->bssidx,
ifevent->flags, ifevent->role);
- if (ifevent->flags & BRCMF_E_IF_FLAG_NOIF) {
+ /* The P2P Device interface event must not be ignored
+ * contrary to what firmware tells us. The only way to
+ * distinguish the P2P Device is by looking at the ifidx
+ * and bssidx received.
+ */
+ if (!(ifevent->ifidx == 0 && ifevent->bssidx == 1) &&
+ (ifevent->flags & BRCMF_E_IF_FLAG_NOIF)) {
brcmf_dbg(EVENT, "event can be ignored\n");
return;
}
@@ -210,12 +216,12 @@ static void brcmf_fweh_handle_if_event(s
return;
}
- if (ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_CHANGE)
+ if (ifp && ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_CHANGE)
brcmf_fws_reset_interface(ifp);
err = brcmf_fweh_call_event_handler(ifp, emsg->event_code, emsg, data);
- if (ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_DEL) {
+ if (ifp && ifevent->action == BRCMF_E_IF_DEL) {
brcmf_fws_del_interface(ifp);
brcmf_del_if(drvr, ifevent->bssidx);
}
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ enum brcmf_fweh_event_code {
#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_STA 0
#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_AP 1
#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_WDS 2
+#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_P2P_GO 3
+#define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_P2P_CLIENT 4
/**
* definitions for event packet validation.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/brcmfmac-handle-if-event-for-p2p_device-interface.patch
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