[PATCH 5.11 13/45] mac80211: choose first enabled channel for monitor

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 06:10:39 EST


From: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 041c881a0ba8a75f71118bd9766b78f04beed469 ]

Even if the first channel from sband channel list is invalid
or disabled mac80211 ends up choosing it as the default channel
for monitor interfaces, making them not usable.

Fix this by assigning the first available valid or enabled
channel instead.

Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1615440547-7661-1-git-send-email-kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[reword commit message, comment, code cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/main.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index dee88ec566ad..d1023188ef37 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -970,8 +970,19 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
continue;

if (!dflt_chandef.chan) {
+ /*
+ * Assign the first enabled channel to dflt_chandef
+ * from the list of channels
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < sband->n_channels; i++)
+ if (!(sband->channels[i].flags &
+ IEEE80211_CHAN_DISABLED))
+ break;
+ /* if none found then use the first anyway */
+ if (i == sband->n_channels)
+ i = 0;
cfg80211_chandef_create(&dflt_chandef,
- &sband->channels[0],
+ &sband->channels[i],
NL80211_CHAN_NO_HT);
/* init channel we're on */
if (!local->use_chanctx && !local->_oper_chandef.chan) {
--
2.30.2