Commit 8105f9b8 authored Sep 22, 2018 by Felix Fietkau Committed by Johannes Berg Sep 26, 2018

mac80211: allocate TXQs for active monitor interfaces



Monitor mode interfaces with the active flag are passed down to the driver.
Drivers using TXQ expect that all interfaces have allocated TXQs before
they get added.

Fixes: 79af1f86 ("mac80211: avoid allocating TXQs that won't be used")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Catrinel Catrinescu <cc@80211.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent c4205510

net/mac80211/iface.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1756,7 +1756,8 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local local, const char name,

		if (local->ops->wake_tx_queue &&
		type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN &&
		type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
		(type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR \|\|
		(params->flags & MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE)))
		txq_size += sizeof(struct txq_info) +
		local->hw.txq_data_size;

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