Re: [PATCH 3/3] wifi: rt2x00: restart beacon queue when hardware reset

[Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 08:15:32PM +0800, Shiji Yang wrote:
> When a hardware reset is triggered, all registers are reset, so all
> queues are forced to stop in hardware interface. However, mac80211
> will not automatically stop the queue. If we don't manually stop the
> beacon queue, the queue will be deadlocked and unable to start again.
> This patch fixes the issue where Apple devices cannot connect to the
> AP after calling ieee80211_restart_hw().

Should not this be solved in mac80211 then? ieee80211_restart_work
does a lot o diffrent things, why beconing is not also
stoped/started there ? 

Regards
Stanislaw

> Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@outlook.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 3 +++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c | 4 +++-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> index 9a9cfd0ce..ac58a56c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
> @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ void rt2x00lib_disable_radio(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
>  	rt2x00link_stop_tuner(rt2x00dev);
>  	rt2x00queue_stop_queues(rt2x00dev);
>  	rt2x00queue_flush_queues(rt2x00dev, true);
> +	if (test_bit(DEVICE_STATE_RESET, &rt2x00dev->flags))
> +		rt2x00queue_stop_queue(rt2x00dev->bcn);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Disable radio.
> @@ -1286,6 +1288,7 @@ int rt2x00lib_start(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
>  	rt2x00dev->intf_ap_count = 0;
>  	rt2x00dev->intf_sta_count = 0;
>  	rt2x00dev->intf_associated = 0;
> +	rt2x00dev->intf_beaconing = 0;
>  
>  	/* Enable the radio */
>  	retval = rt2x00lib_enable_radio(rt2x00dev);
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
> index 4202c6517..6fcbf534a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c
> @@ -615,7 +615,9 @@ void rt2x00mac_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
>  			 * and keep it running on other interfaces.
>  			 */
>  			rt2x00queue_clear_beacon(rt2x00dev, vif);
> -		} else if (bss_conf->enable_beacon && !intf->enable_beacon) {
> +		} else if (bss_conf->enable_beacon &&
> +			   (!intf->enable_beacon ||
> +			    test_bit(DEVICE_STATE_RESET, &rt2x00dev->flags))) {

>  			rt2x00dev->intf_beaconing++;
>  			intf->enable_beacon = true;
>  			/*
> -- 
> 2.39.2
>