[PATCH] wifi: ath10k: indicate to mac80211 scan complete with aborted flag for ATH10K_SCAN_STARTING state

[Kalle Valo]

Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com> wrote:

> Scan failure can not be recovered from when running a loop of the
> following steps:
> 1. run scan: "iw wlan scan".
> 2. run command: echo soft > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath10k/simulate_fw_crash
>    immediately after step 1.
> 
> result:
> scan failed and can not recover even when wlan recovery succeeds:
> command failed: Device or resource busy (-16)
> 
> reason:
> When scan arrives, WMI_START_SCAN_CMDID is sent to the firmware and
> function ath10k_hw_scan() returns, then simulate_fw_crash arrives
> and the scan started event does not arrive, and then it starts to do
> recovery of wlan. __ath10k_scan_finish() which is called from
> ath10k_halt() is one step of recovery, it will not call
> ieee80211_scan_completed() by logic currently because the scan state is
> ATH10K_SCAN_STARTING. Thus it leads the scan not being completed in
> mac80211, and leads all consecutive scans failing with -EBUSY in
> nl80211_trigger_scan even after wlan recovery success.
> 
> Indicate scan complete with aborted flag to mac80211 for
> ATH10K_SCAN_STARTING to allow recovery from scan failed with "Device or
> resource busy (-16)" after wlan recovery.
> 
> Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 SDIO WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00174
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

d876188ab807 wifi: ath10k: indicate to mac80211 scan complete with aborted flag for ATH10K_SCAN_STARTING state

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