Commit e556f111 authored by Michal Kazior's avatar Michal Kazior Committed by Kalle Valo
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ath10k: stop monitor vdev for sta assoc 



This prevents some fw revisions from crashing in
many cases when user is trying to run a
promiscuous station interface (e.g. sniffing,
4addr bridge).

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
parent 1933747f

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c

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@@ -3169,8 +3169,16 @@ static void ath10k_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, 
	}



	if (changed & BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC) {

		if (info->assoc)

		if (info->assoc) {

			/* Workaround: Make sure monitor vdev is not running

			 * when associating to prevent some firmware revisions

			 * (e.g. 10.1 and 10.2) from crashing.

			 */

			if (ar->monitor_started)

				ath10k_monitor_stop(ar);

			ath10k_bss_assoc(hw, vif, info);

			ath10k_monitor_recalc(ar);

		}

	}



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