> > This code was designed for regulatory changes, but the WARN_ON() > > indicates that we got connected on a channel that we think isn't > > actually usable. We quite possibly should reject that connection > > there, but it seems to me it should've been rejected elsewhere > > already...? > > But this is prior to connection, right? This warning happens upon > authenticate.
Yeah the warning happens in authentication. > So in nl80211_authenticate() we do: > > chan = nl80211_get_valid_chan(&rdev->wiphy, > info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ]); > > and in cfg80211_mlme_auth(): > > req.bss = cfg80211_get_bss(&rdev->wiphy, chan, bssid, ssid, ssid_len, > IEEE80211_BSS_TYPE_ESS, > IEEE80211_PRIVACY_ANY); That might not be what's going on - the OP said he was getting this with iw, which doesn't go through nl80211_authenticate() but nl80211_connect(). > After that the chain is: > > ieee80211_mgd_auth() -> > ieee80211_prep_connection() -> > ieee80211_prep_channel() -> > ieee80211_determine_chantype() And somehow that determines that even a 20MHz no-HT channel isn't valid. johannes
