Re: [PATCH wireless] wifi: mac80211: clear beaconing state in ieee80211_do_stop()

[Hojun Choi <ghwns6743@gmail.com>]

Following up with the concrete path, since the question is whether
cfg80211_leave() already covers this. It does not for AP start failure:
ieee80211_start_ap() sets enable_beacon before its fail-able steps, but
its error path (cfg.c:1930) only releases the channel, never clearing it
(unlike the IBSS/mesh paths), while cfg80211 leaves ap.beacon_interval at
0. A later interface-down then makes ___cfg80211_stop_ap() short-circuit
(-ENOENT, net/wireless/ap.c:30) and skip the stop_ap clear, so
ieee80211_do_stop() runs with enable_beacon still set. I could not get a
driver to fail start_ap() there, so this is by inspection, not a
reproducer.

I can fold this into the commit message in a v2, or instead fix the
producer by clearing enable_beacon on the start_ap() error path
(mirroring IBSS/mesh) - whichever you prefer. I used do_stop() since
you suggested it might need to clear that bit.

Thanks,
Hojun