mac80211: Prevent AP probing during suspend
authorLoic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:45:27 +0000 (10:45 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:27:51 +0000 (17:27 +0200)
commitb33fb28c867d7c86df3bdd257b0320ed148e3dc3
treea340129bab72454b3b8c653565c34f33120a0692
parent63fa04266629b9559d66c4dc18b03e0f9fc04a02
mac80211: Prevent AP probing during suspend

Submitting AP probe/null during suspend can cause unexpected
disconnect on resume because of timeout waiting for ack status:

wlan0: Failed to send nullfunc to AP 11:22:33:44:55:66 after 500ms, disconnecting

This is especially the case when we enter suspend when a scan is
ongoing, indeed, scan is cancelled from __ieee80211_suspend, leading
to a corresponding (aborted) scan complete event, which in turn causes
the submission of an immediate monitor null frame (restart_sta_timer).
The corresponding packet or ack will not be processed before resuming,
causing a timeout & disconnect on resume.

Delay the AP probing when suspending/suspended.

Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1634805927-1113-1-git-send-email-loic.poulain@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/mlme.c
net/mac80211/pm.c