linux-kernel - [PATCH] mwifiex: don't advertise IBSS features without FW support

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:31:29 -0800
From:   Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To:     Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@...vell.com>,
        Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Karthik D A <karthida@...vell.com>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: don't advertise IBSS features without FW support

As it is, doing something like

  # iw phy phy0 interface add foobar type ibss

on a firmware that doesn't have ad-hoc support just yields failures of
HostCmd_CMD_SET_BSS_MODE, which happened to return a '-1' error code
(-EPERM? not really right...) and sometimes may even crash the firmware
along the way.

Let's parse the firmware capability flag while registering the wiphy, so
we don't allow attempting IBSS at all, and we get a proper -EOPNOTSUPP
from nl80211 instead.

Fixes: e267e71e68ae ("mwifiex: Disable adhoc feature based on firmware capability")
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index 1467af22e394..883752f640b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -4310,11 +4310,13 @@ int mwifiex_register_cfg80211(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
 	wiphy->mgmt_stypes = mwifiex_mgmt_stypes;
 	wiphy->max_remain_on_channel_duration = 5000;
 	wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
-				 BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
 				 BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT) |
 				 BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO) |
 				 BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP);
 
+	if (ISSUPP_ADHOC_ENABLED(adapter->fw_cap_info))
+		wiphy->interface_modes |= BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC);
+
 	wiphy->bands[NL80211_BAND_2GHZ] = &mwifiex_band_2ghz;
 	if (adapter->config_bands & BAND_A)
 		wiphy->bands[NL80211_BAND_5GHZ] = &mwifiex_band_5ghz;
@@ -4374,11 +4376,13 @@ int mwifiex_register_cfg80211(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
 	wiphy->available_antennas_tx = BIT(adapter->number_of_antenna) - 1;
 	wiphy->available_antennas_rx = BIT(adapter->number_of_antenna) - 1;
 
-	wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS |
-			   NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER |
+	wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_INACTIVITY_TIMER |
 			   NL80211_FEATURE_LOW_PRIORITY_SCAN |
 			   NL80211_FEATURE_NEED_OBSS_SCAN;
 
+	if (ISSUPP_ADHOC_ENABLED(adapter->fw_cap_info))
+		wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS;
+
 	if (ISSUPP_RANDOM_MAC(adapter->fw_cap_info))
 		wiphy->features |= NL80211_FEATURE_SCAN_RANDOM_MAC_ADDR |
 				   NL80211_FEATURE_SCHED_SCAN_RANDOM_MAC_ADDR |
-- 
2.21.0.rc0.258.g878e2cd30e-goog