From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chih-Kang Chang <gary.chang@realtek.com>,
Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] wifi: rtw89: mcc: reset probe counter when receiving beacon
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:22:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260214212452.782265-16-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260214212452.782265-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Chih-Kang Chang <gary.chang@realtek.com>
[ Upstream commit 1b40c1c7571fcf926095ed92f25bd87900bdc8ed ]
For BE chips, needs to transmit QoS null data periodically to ensure
the connection with AP in GC+STA mode. However, in environments
with interference, the Qos null data might fail to transmit
successfully. Therefore, when receive the beacon from AP will
reset the QoS null data failure counter to avoid unnecessary
disconnection.
Signed-off-by: Chih-Kang Chang <gary.chang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251223030651.480633-13-pkshih@realtek.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:
Good — the tree shows the **pre-patch** version. The `last_sync_bcn_tsf`
field and `sync_bcn_tsf` already exist, so the infrastructure needed by
this commit is present. The commit itself makes a clean, self-contained
modification.
### 7. SUMMARY
**Problem**: In rtw89 WiFi driver, when operating in MCC (Multi-Channel
Concurrency) GC+STA mode, the driver uses QoS null data frames to verify
AP connectivity. In environments with interference, these frames can
fail even though the connection is actually alive (beacons are still
being received). This causes false `ieee80211_connection_loss()` calls,
disconnecting the user unnecessarily.
**Fix**: Before incrementing the probe failure counter, check if a
beacon has been received since the last check (by comparing
`sync_bcn_tsf` to `last_sync_bcn_tsf`). If a beacon was received, the
connection is still alive, so reset the counter instead of incrementing
it.
**Stable criteria assessment**:
- **Obviously correct**: Yes — the logic is simple: if we received a
beacon, the connection is alive, don't disconnect
- **Fixes a real bug**: Yes — false disconnection in interference-heavy
WiFi environments
- **Important issue**: Yes — unnecessary WiFi disconnection is a
significant user-facing issue
- **Small and contained**: Yes — ~10 lines of logic in 2 files, all
within the rtw89 driver
- **No new features**: Correct — this only improves connection loss
detection accuracy
- **Dependencies**: The `sync_bcn_tsf` and `last_sync_bcn_tsf` fields
already exist in the tree; the initialization in mac80211.c is trivial
**Risk**: Very low. The change is confined to the rtw89 driver's MCC
path, and the worst case (if somehow wrong) is that the original
disconnection behavior triggers slightly differently — still better than
the false disconnection scenario.
**YES**
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/chan.c | 5 ++++-
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac80211.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/chan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/chan.c
index 86f1b39a967fe..8fe6a7ef738f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/chan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/chan.c
@@ -2608,17 +2608,20 @@ bool rtw89_mcc_detect_go_bcn(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev,
static void rtw89_mcc_detect_connection(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev,
struct rtw89_mcc_role *role)
{
+ struct rtw89_vif_link *rtwvif_link = role->rtwvif_link;
struct ieee80211_vif *vif;
bool start_detect;
int ret;
ret = rtw89_core_send_nullfunc(rtwdev, role->rtwvif_link, true, false,
RTW89_MCC_PROBE_TIMEOUT);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret &&
+ READ_ONCE(rtwvif_link->sync_bcn_tsf) == rtwvif_link->last_sync_bcn_tsf)
role->probe_count++;
else
role->probe_count = 0;
+ rtwvif_link->last_sync_bcn_tsf = READ_ONCE(rtwvif_link->sync_bcn_tsf);
if (role->probe_count < RTW89_MCC_PROBE_MAX_TRIES)
return;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac80211.c
index f39ca1c2ed100..d08eac3d99266 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/mac80211.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static int __rtw89_ops_add_iface_link(struct rtw89_dev *rtwdev,
rtwvif_link->reg_6ghz_power = RTW89_REG_6GHZ_POWER_DFLT;
rtwvif_link->rand_tsf_done = false;
rtwvif_link->detect_bcn_count = 0;
+ rtwvif_link->last_sync_bcn_tsf = 0;
rcu_read_lock();
--
2.51.0
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2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] wifi: iwlwifi: fix 22000 series SMEM parsing Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] net/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] ipv6: annotate data-races in net/ipv6/route.c Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.6] wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: check the validity of noa_len Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] wifi: rtw89: fix unable to receive probe responses under MLO connection Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] PCI: Enable ACS after configuring IOMMU for OF platforms Sasha Levin
2026-03-18 8:21 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
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2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] wifi: rtw88: Use devm_kmemdup() in rtw_set_supported_band() Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.6] Bluetooth: hci_conn: Set link_policy on incoming ACL connections Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] wifi: libertas: fix WARNING in usb_tx_block Sasha Levin
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2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] bnxt_en: Allow ntuple filters for drops Sasha Levin
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2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] ptp: ptp_vmclock: add 'VMCLOCK' to ACPI device match Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] jfs: nlink overflow in jfs_rename Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] PCI: Mark ASM1164 SATA controller to avoid bus reset Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.15] ext4: mark group extend fast-commit ineligible Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] openrisc: define arch-specific version of nop() Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] PCI: imx6: Add CLKREQ# override to enable REFCLK for i.MX95 PCIe Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.15] fsnotify: Shutdown fsnotify before destroying sb's dcache Sasha Levin
2026-02-15 8:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2026-02-17 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-26 14:09 ` Sasha Levin
2026-02-26 15:57 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] ipv4: fib: Annotate access to struct fib_alias.fa_state Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] PCI: Fix pci_slot_lock () device locking Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] net: sfp: add quirk for Lantech 8330-265D Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] wifi: rtw89: pci: validate release report content before using for RTL8922DE Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.12] wifi: rtw89: 8922a: set random mac if efuse contains zeroes Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] Bluetooth: btusb: Add device ID for Realtek RTL8761BU Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] rtla: Fix NULL pointer dereference in actions_parse Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] wifi: rtw89: fix potential zero beacon interval in beacon tracking Sasha Levin
2026-02-14 21:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.6] iommu/amd: move wait_on_sem() out of spinlock Sasha Levin
2026-02-16 4:27 ` Ankit Soni
2026-02-14 21:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-5.10] Bluetooth: hci_conn: use mod_delayed_work for active mode timeout Sasha Levin
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