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authorPontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>2016-04-18 22:00:40 -0700
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>2016-04-25 20:37:04 +0300
commit91c3eeba45e13ab7edfb50610df8672d52809394 (patch)
treeef2a77d9f86abbc7742b8ce047d3ce8542c33c2b /drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx
parent25d217d6e0723481bf90db1d8be02ab475d16002 (diff)
wcn36xx: Pad TIM PVM if needed
The wcn36xx FW expects a fixed size TIM PVM in the beacon template. If supplied with a shorter than expected PVM it will overwrite the IE following the TIM. Squashed with fix from Jason Mobarak <jam@cozybit.com>: Patch "wcn36xx: Pad TIM PVM if needed" has caused a regression in mesh beaconing. The field tim_off is always 0 for mesh mode, and thus pvm_len (referring to the TIM length field) and pad are both incorrectly calculated. Thus, msg_body.beacon_length is incorrectly calculated for mesh mode. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Mobarak <jam@cozybit.com> [bjorn: squashed in Jason's fixup] Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/hal.h3
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c27
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/hal.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/hal.h
index d713204f755d..3af16cba3d12 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/hal.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/hal.h
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
/* Default Beacon template size */
#define BEACON_TEMPLATE_SIZE 0x180
+/* Minimum PVM size that the FW expects. See comment in smd.c for details. */
+#define TIM_MIN_PVM_SIZE 6
+
/* Param Change Bitmap sent to HAL */
#define PARAM_BCN_INTERVAL_CHANGED (1 << 0)
#define PARAM_SHORT_PREAMBLE_CHANGED (1 << 1)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index ff3ed2461a69..089a7e445cd6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -1375,12 +1375,19 @@ int wcn36xx_smd_send_beacon(struct wcn36xx *wcn, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
u16 p2p_off)
{
struct wcn36xx_hal_send_beacon_req_msg msg_body;
- int ret = 0;
+ int ret = 0, pad, pvm_len;
mutex_lock(&wcn->hal_mutex);
INIT_HAL_MSG(msg_body, WCN36XX_HAL_SEND_BEACON_REQ);
- msg_body.beacon_length = skb_beacon->len;
+ pvm_len = skb_beacon->data[tim_off + 1] - 3;
+ pad = TIM_MIN_PVM_SIZE - pvm_len;
+
+ /* Padding is irrelevant to mesh mode since tim_off is always 0. */
+ if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
+ pad = 0;
+
+ msg_body.beacon_length = skb_beacon->len + pad;
/* TODO need to find out why + 6 is needed */
msg_body.beacon_length6 = msg_body.beacon_length + 6;
@@ -1393,6 +1400,22 @@ int wcn36xx_smd_send_beacon(struct wcn36xx *wcn, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
memcpy(msg_body.beacon, skb_beacon->data, skb_beacon->len);
memcpy(msg_body.bssid, vif->addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ if (pad > 0) {
+ /*
+ * The wcn36xx FW has a fixed size for the PVM in the TIM. If
+ * given the beacon template from mac80211 with a PVM shorter
+ * than the FW expectes it will overwrite the data after the
+ * TIM.
+ */
+ wcn36xx_dbg(WCN36XX_DBG_HAL, "Pad TIM PVM. %d bytes at %d\n",
+ pad, pvm_len);
+ memmove(&msg_body.beacon[tim_off + 5 + pvm_len + pad],
+ &msg_body.beacon[tim_off + 5 + pvm_len],
+ skb_beacon->len - (tim_off + 5 + pvm_len));
+ memset(&msg_body.beacon[tim_off + 5 + pvm_len], 0, pad);
+ msg_body.beacon[tim_off + 1] += pad;
+ }
+
/* TODO need to find out why this is needed? */
if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT)
/* mesh beacon don't need this, so push further down */