linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 4/9] wifi: mac80211: mesh: init nonpeer

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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:27:49 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Nicolas Escande <nico.escande@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	johannes@...solutions.net,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 4/9] wifi: mac80211: mesh: init nonpeer_pm to active by default in mesh sdata

From: Nicolas Escande <nico.escande@...il.com>

[ Upstream commit 6f6291f09a322c1c1578badac8072d049363f4e6 ]

With a ath9k device I can see that:
	iw phy phy0 interface add mesh0 type mp
	ip link set mesh0 up
	iw dev mesh0 scan

Will start a scan with the Power Management bit set in the Frame Control Field.
This is because we set this bit depending on the nonpeer_pm variable of the mesh
iface sdata and when there are no active links on the interface it remains to
NL80211_MESH_POWER_UNKNOWN.

As soon as links starts to be established, it wil switch to
NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE as it is the value set by befault on the per sta
nonpeer_pm field.
As we want no power save by default, (as expressed with the per sta ini values),
lets init it to the expected default value of NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE.

Also please note that we cannot change the default value from userspace prior to
establishing a link as using NL80211_CMD_SET_MESH_CONFIG will not work before
NL80211_CMD_JOIN_MESH has been issued. So too late for our initial scan.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande <nico.escande@...il.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240527141759.299411-1-nico.escande@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/mac80211/mesh.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 3162f955f3ae2..c9a5271d9b59d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -1454,6 +1454,7 @@ void ieee80211_mesh_init_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 	ifmsh->last_preq = jiffies;
 	ifmsh->next_perr = jiffies;
 	ifmsh->csa_role = IEEE80211_MESH_CSA_ROLE_NONE;
+	ifmsh->nonpeer_pm = NL80211_MESH_POWER_ACTIVE;
 	/* Allocate all mesh structures when creating the first mesh interface. */
 	if (!mesh_allocated)
 		ieee80211s_init();
-- 
2.43.0