From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>, Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>,
Zhiyuan Yang <yangzy@marvell.com>, James Cao <jcao@marvell.com>,
Mangesh Malusare <mmangesh@marvell.com>,
Rohit Fule <rohitf@marvell.com>,
Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: mwifiex: double the size of chan_stats array in adapter
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:39:33 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171013093934.11BBD6095E@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507118766-17713-1-git-send-email-gbhat@marvell.com>
Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com> wrote:
> From: Rohit Fule <rohitf@marvell.com>
>
> When a user requests scan, driver sends multiple scan requests
> to firmware, which might be active or passive. Firmware will
> send channel statistics for each channel in the request. This will
> be stored in chan_stats array.
>
> Few channels might report hidden SSIDs in passive scan results.
> So, once the original scan request is finished, driver issues an
> active scan request for all channels which reported hidden SSIDs.
> This will cause duplicates in the chan_stats array. At worst,
> every channel will have a hidden SSID, in which case the driver
> can issue active scan requests for each channel. So the complete
> scan statistics size will be twice of existing limit.
>
> At present maximum number of channels returned in scan statistics
> is 31(BG) + 14(A) = 45. Clearly there will be an overflow of the
> chan_stats array in the above mentioned scenario. To fix this
> double the size of chan_stats array.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohit Fule <rohitf@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mangesh Malusare <mmangesh@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
2d5cc60949e0 mwifiex: double the size of chan_stats array in adapter
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9984471/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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