Commit 178e9ef9 authored by Hante Meuleman's avatar Hante Meuleman Committed by Kalle Valo

brcmfmac: Workaround in change vif for wpa_supplicant support.

Different wpa_supplicants have different behavior and expectations
regarding the change_virtual_intf behavior. This patch implements
a workaround for the different versions and possible brcmfmac
configuration.
Reviewed-by: default avatarArend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
parent 43e55a2a
......@@ -777,6 +777,37 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_change_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
s32 err = 0;
brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Enter, idx=%d, type=%d\n", ifp->bssidx, type);
/* WAR: There are a number of p2p interface related problems which
* need to be handled initially (before doing the validate).
* wpa_supplicant tends to do iface changes on p2p device/client/go
* which are not always possible/allowed. However we need to return
* OK otherwise the wpa_supplicant wont start. The situation differs
* on configuration and setup (p2pon=1 module param). The first check
* is to see if the request is a change to station for p2p iface.
*/
if ((type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) &&
((vif->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT) ||
(vif->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO) ||
(vif->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE))) {
brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Ignoring cmd for p2p if\n");
/* Now depending on whether module param p2pon=1 was used the
* response needs to be either 0 or EOPNOTSUPP. The reason is
* that if p2pon=1 is used, but a newer supplicant is used then
* we should return an error, as this combination wont work.
* In other situations 0 is returned and supplicant will start
* normally. It will give a trace in cfg80211, but it is the
* only way to get it working. Unfortunately this will result
* in situation where we wont support new supplicant in
* combination with module param p2pon=1, but that is the way
* it is. If the user tries this then unloading of driver might
* fail/lock.
*/
if (cfg->p2p.p2pdev_dynamically)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
else
return 0;
}
err = brcmf_vif_change_validate(wiphy_to_cfg(wiphy), vif, type);
if (err) {
brcmf_err("iface validation failed: err=%d\n", err);
......@@ -792,18 +823,6 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_change_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
infra = 0;
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
/* Ignore change for p2p IF. Unclear why supplicant does this */
if ((vif->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT) ||
(vif->wdev.iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO)) {
brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Ignoring cmd for p2p if\n");
/* WAR: It is unexpected to get a change of VIF for P2P
* IF, but it happens. The request can not be handled
* but returning EPERM causes a crash. Returning 0
* without setting ieee80211_ptr->iftype causes trace
* (WARN_ON) but it works with wpa_supplicant
*/
return 0;
}
infra = 1;
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
......
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