On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 23:14 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 01/18/15 21:18, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:
> > When we have an active scheduled scan, and the RFKILL
> > interrupt kicks in, the stack will cancel the scheduled
> > scan as part of the down flow. But cancelling scheduled
> > scan usually implies sending a command to the firwmare
> > which has been killed as part of the RFKILL interrupt
> > handling.
> > Because of that, we returned an error to mac80211 when
> > it asked to stop the scheduled scan and didn't notify the
> > end of the scheduled scan. Besides a fat warning, this led
> > to a situation in which cfg80211 would refuse any new scan
> > request.
> >
> > To disentangle this, fake that the scheduled scan has been
> > stopped without sending the command to the firwmare, return
> > 0 after having properly let cfg80211 know that the scan
> > has been cancelled.
> >
> > This is basically the same as:
> > commit 9b520d84957d63348e87c0f2cbd21d86e1e8f2f2
> > Author: Emmanuel Grumbach<[email protected]>
> > Date:   Tue Nov 4 15:54:11 2014 +0200
> >
> >      iwlwifi: mvm: abort scan upon RFKILL
> >
> >      This code existed but not for all the different FW APIs
> >      we support.
> >      Fix this.
> >
> > but for the scheduled scan case.
> 
> So looking at the patch I guess cfg80211 will still issues a WARN_ON, right?
> 

Why?
cfg80211 gets notified about the scan completion, so no scanning should
remain active when the down flow is over.

> > Link: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/133232
> > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds<[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach<[email protected]>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c | 7 +++++++
> >   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c 
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> > index 3fbba4b..844bf7c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c
> > @@ -1107,6 +1107,12 @@ int iwl_mvm_scan_offload_stop(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, 
> > bool notify)
> >             return iwl_umac_scan_stop(mvm, IWL_UMAC_SCAN_UID_SCHED_SCAN,
> >                                       notify);
> >
> > +   if (mvm->scan_status == IWL_MVM_SCAN_NONE)
> > +           return 0;
> > +
> > +   if (iwl_mvm_is_radio_killed(mvm))
> > +           goto out;
> > +
> >     if (mvm->scan_status != IWL_MVM_SCAN_SCHED&&
> >     (!(mvm->fw->ucode_capa.api[0]&  IWL_UCODE_TLV_API_LMAC_SCAN) ||
> >          mvm->scan_status != IWL_MVM_SCAN_OS)) {
> > @@ -1143,6 +1149,7 @@ int iwl_mvm_scan_offload_stop(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, 
> > bool notify)
> >     if (mvm->scan_status == IWL_MVM_SCAN_OS)
> >             iwl_mvm_unref(mvm, IWL_MVM_REF_SCAN);
> >
> > +out:
> >     mvm->scan_status = IWL_MVM_SCAN_NONE;
> >
> >     if (notify) {
> 

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