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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 2020 06:10:25 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r361687 - head/sys/dev/ath
Message-ID:  <202006010610.0516APxk017801@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: adrian
Date: Mon Jun  1 06:10:25 2020
New Revision: 361687
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361687

Log:
  [ath] Don't re-program the beacon timers if we miss a beacon in software-beacon STA mode.
  
  This is something I added a few years ago to handle resyncing the beacon if
  we miss a beacon or need to sync after association/reassociation/powersave.
  
  However, if we're doing STA+AP mode (eg DWDS) then we don't want
  to reprogram the beacons here; this may upset normal AP operation.
  I missed checking for the sc->sc_swbmiss flag so I was reinitialising
  the beacon timers after every beacon miss / TSFOOR option, and
  that isn't likely good.
  
  This plus ensuring that STA's are created with "-beacon" to disable
  BMISS/TSFOOR processing will hopefully quieten some of the issues
  I've seen with missed beacons / TSFOOR (out of range) interrupts
  coming in when operating in STA mode.
  
  Tested:
  
  * AR9380/AR9580, STA+AP modes

Modified:
  head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_rx.c

Modified: head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_rx.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_rx.c	Mon Jun  1 05:14:01 2020	(r361686)
+++ head/sys/dev/ath/if_ath_rx.c	Mon Jun  1 06:10:25 2020	(r361687)
@@ -447,9 +447,17 @@ ath_recv_mgmt(struct ieee80211_node *ni, struct mbuf *
 			    (unsigned int) (nexttbtt >> 10),
 			    (int32_t) tsf_beacon - (int32_t) nexttbtt + tsf_intval);
 
-			/* We only do syncbeacon on STA VAPs; not on IBSS */
+			/*
+			 * We only do syncbeacon on STA VAPs; not on IBSS;
+			 * but don't do it with swbmiss enabled or we
+			 * may end up overwriting AP mode beacon config.
+			 *
+			 * The driver (and net80211) should be smarter about
+			 * this..
+			 */
 			if (vap->iv_opmode == IEEE80211_M_STA &&
 			    sc->sc_syncbeacon &&
+			    (!sc->sc_swbmiss) &&
 			    ni == vap->iv_bss &&
 			    (vap->iv_state == IEEE80211_S_RUN || vap->iv_state == IEEE80211_S_SLEEP)) {
 				DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DEBUG_BEACON,



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