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Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/link.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/link.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/link.c b/net/mac80211/link.c index 43f9672fc7f1..af0321408a97 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/link.c +++ b/net/mac80211/link.c @@ -404,9 +404,24 @@ static int _ieee80211_set_active_links(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, link = sdata_dereference(sdata->link[link_id], sdata); - ret = ieee80211_link_use_channel(link, - &link->conf->chanreq, - IEEE80211_CHANCTX_SHARED); + /* + * This call really should not fail. Unfortunately, it appears + * that this may happen occasionally with some drivers. Should + * it happen, we are stuck in a bad place as going backwards is + * not really feasible. + * + * So lets just tell link_use_channel that it must not fail to + * assign the channel context (from mac80211's perspective) and + * assume the driver is going to trigger a recovery flow if it + * had a failure. + * That really is not great nor guaranteed to work. But at least + * the internal mac80211 state remains consistent and there is + * a chance that we can recover. + */ + ret = _ieee80211_link_use_channel(link, + &link->conf->chanreq, + IEEE80211_CHANCTX_SHARED, + true); WARN_ON_ONCE(ret); ieee80211_mgd_set_link_qos_params(link); |