[PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: Block radio bring-up in FTM mode

Aaradhana Sahu aaradhana.sahu at oss.qualcomm.com
Sun Jun 29 20:15:02 PDT 2025


Ensure that all radios remain down when the driver operates in Factory
Test Mode (FTM). Reject any userspace attempts to bring up an
interface in this mode.

Currently, the driver allows userspace to bring up the interface even
though it operates in FTM mode, which violates FTM constraints and
leads to FTM command failures.

Hence, block the radio start when the driver is in FTM mode. Also,
remove ath12k_ftm_mode check from ath12k_drain_tx() because FTM mode
check is already handled in the caller function
(ath12k_mac_op_start()).

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Fixes: 3bc374cbc49e ("wifi: ath12k: add factory test mode support")
Signed-off-by: Aaradhana Sahu <aaradhana.sahu at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
index 32519666632d..22a04b32c0ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
@@ -8342,14 +8342,9 @@ static int ath12k_mac_start(struct ath12k *ar)
 
 static void ath12k_drain_tx(struct ath12k_hw *ah)
 {
-	struct ath12k *ar = ah->radio;
+	struct ath12k *ar;
 	int i;
 
-	if (ath12k_ftm_mode) {
-		ath12k_err(ar->ab, "fail to start mac operations in ftm mode\n");
-		return;
-	}
-
 	lockdep_assert_wiphy(ah->hw->wiphy);
 
 	for_each_ar(ah, ar, i)
@@ -8362,6 +8357,9 @@ static int ath12k_mac_op_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	struct ath12k *ar;
 	int ret, i;
 
+	if (ath12k_ftm_mode)
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	lockdep_assert_wiphy(hw->wiphy);
 
 	ath12k_drain_tx(ah);

base-commit: 4fb98d37afdac11db1f82c1d662e0fd3d209afaa
-- 
2.34.1




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