Re: [WEXT]: multiple calls for SIOCGIWSTATS return same value

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 20:37 -0600, Gerrit Renker wrote:
> A problem has been found in recent kernels where multiple
> calls using SIOCGIWSTATS return the same, identical value.

Which "value"? I believe these return a number of different values. What
are the returned values? Are they perhaps just 0?

Is the application a 32-bit application running on a 64-bit machine
perhaps? There have been bugs in that area in the past, though I don't
believe anything changed between 3.19 and 4.0. In fact, in wext nothing
really changed at all - only some internal maintenance (commit
319090bf6c75e3ad42a8c74973be5e78ae4f948f)

> This behaviour is observable both using 'iwconfig <dev>'
> and wavemon info screen, where it was reported in [1].
> 
> It looks as if this is a WEXT issue, since on the same 
> system multiple 'iw dev <devname> station dump' calls
> return different signal level values.
> 
> I can confirm the behaviour on davem 4.1.0-rc6 net tree
> at commit c46a024ea5, it has been reported on [1] for 
> fedora 21 with kernel-4.0.4-201/2 as well.
> 
> That report also stated that the behaviour does not occur
> on kernel-3.19.7-200. Have not had time to bisect yet.
> 
> Thanks for any hints that can help resolve this.

I have no idea, sorry.

johannes