[PATCH review for 4.9 09/50] mac80211: fix power saving clients handling in iwlwifi

From: Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2017 - 21:14:20 EST


From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d98937f4ea713d21e0fcc345919f86c877dd8d6f ]

iwlwifi now supports RSS and can't let mac80211 track the
PS state based on the Rx frames since they can come out of
order. iwlwifi is now advertising AP_LINK_PS, and uses
explicit notifications to teach mac80211 about the PS state
of the stations and the PS poll / uAPSD trigger frames
coming our way from the peers.

Because of that, the TIM stopped being maintained in
mac80211. I tried to fix this in commit c68df2e7be0c
("mac80211: allow using AP_LINK_PS with mac80211-generated TIM IE")
but that was later reverted by Felix in commit 6c18a6b4e799
("Revert "mac80211: allow using AP_LINK_PS with mac80211-generated TIM IE")
since it broke drivers that do not implement set_tim.

Since none of the drivers that set AP_LINK_PS have the
set_tim() handler set besides iwlwifi, I can bail out in
__sta_info_recalc_tim if AP_LINK_PS AND .set_tim is not
implemented.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index b2c823ffad74..348700b424ea 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ static void __sta_info_recalc_tim(struct sta_info *sta, bool ignore_pending)
}

/* No need to do anything if the driver does all */
- if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, AP_LINK_PS))
+ if (ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, AP_LINK_PS) && !local->ops->set_tim)
return;

if (sta->dead)
--
2.11.0