When connected to an AP, the PHY will typically be tuned to
a higher bandwidth than the beacons are transmitted on, as
they are normally only transmitted on 20 MHz. This can mean
that another STA is simultaneously transmitting on another
channel of the higher bandwidth, and apparently this energy
may be taken into account by the PHY, resulting in elevated
energy readings.
To work around this, track the firmware's corrected beacon
energy data and replace the RSSI in beacons by that. The
replacement happens for all beacons received in the context
of the current MAC or link (depending on FW version), in
which case the filters will drop all else. For a scan, which
is only tuning to 20 MHz channels, the MAC/link ID will be
one that isn't found (the AUX ID 4), and no correction will
be done (nor is it needed.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250711183056.324bfe7027ff.I160f947e7aab30e0110a7019ed46186e57c3de14@changeid
Miri Korenblit says:
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iwlwifi-next - iwlwifi features
Mostly cleanups. A few fixes and small features.
====================
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The initialization of async_handlers_list
was accidentally removed in a previous change.
Then it was restoted by commit 175e69e33c ("wifi: iwlwifi: restore
missing initialization of async_handlers_list").
Somehow, the initialization disappeared again.
Restote it.
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
In case of an error during init, in_hw_restart will be set, but it will
never get cleared.
Instead, we will retry to init again, and then we will act like we are in a
restart when we are actually not.
This causes (among others) to a NULL pointer dereference when canceling
rx_omi::finished_work, that was not even initialized, because we thought
that we are in hw_restart.
Set in_hw_restart to true only if the fw is running, then we know that
FW was loaded successfully and we are not going to the retry loop.
Fixes: 7391b2a4f7 ("wifi: iwlwifi: rework firmware error handling")
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250604061200.e0040e0a4b09.Iae469a0abe6bfa3c26d8a88c066bad75c2e8f121@changeid
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
The driver must not hold the wiphy mutex when unregistering the thermal
devices. Do not hold the lock for the call to iwl_mld_thermal_exit and
only do a lock/unlock to cancel the ct_kill_exit_wk work.
The problem is that iwl_mld_tzone_get_temp needs to take the wiphy lock
while the thermal code is holding its own locks already. When
unregistering the device, the reverse would happen as the driver was
calling thermal_cooling_device_unregister with the wiphy mutex already
held.
It is not likely to trigger this deadlock as it can only happen if the
thermal code is polling the temperature while the driver is being
unloaded. However, lockdep reported it so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250506194102.3407967-12-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
From the moment that we have ALIVE, we can receive notification that
are handled asynchronously.
Some notifications (for example iwl_rfi_support_notif) requires an
operational FW. So we need to make sure that they were handled in
iwl_op_mode_mld_start before we stop the FW. Flush the async_handlers_wk
there to achieve that.
Also, if loading the FW in op mode start failed, we need to cancel
these notifications, as they are from a dead FW.
More than that, not doing so can cause us to access freed memory
if async_handlers_wk is executed after ieee80211_free_hw is called.
Fix this by canceling all async notifications if a failure occurred in
init (after ALIVE).
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250423091408.a8f63d983466.Ifd77d9c1a29fdd278b0a7bfc2709dd5d5e5efdb1@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
iwlwifi is the driver of all Intel wifi devices since 2008.
Since then, the hardware has changed a lot, but the firmware
API has changed even more. The need to keep one driver that
supports all those different APIs led us to introduce a new
architecture circa 2012 which allowed us to keep the same
interface to the hardware (DMAs, Tx queues, etc...) with a
new layer to implement the mid-layer between mac80211 and
the firmware. The first component is called the 'transport'
and the latter is called 'operation_mode' a.k.a op_mode.
In 2013 we took advantage of the new architecture to
introduce iwlmvm which allowed us to implement the, then,
new firmware API. This op_mode supports 7260 and up, those
devices supports support at least VHT.
Since then, wifi evolved and so did the firmware. It became
much bigger and took a lot of functionality from the driver.
It became increasingly hard to keep the same op_mode for the
newest devices and we experienced frequent regressions on
older devices. In order to avoid those regressions and keep
the code maintainable, we decided it was about time to start
a new op_mode.
iwlmld is a new op_mode that supports BE200 or newer if the
firmware being used is 97.ucode or newer. If the user has
an older devices or BE200 with .96.ucode, iwlmvm will be
loaded. Of course, this op_mode selection is seamless.
All the features supported in iwlmvm are supported in
iwlmld besides a few seldom used use cases: injection and
Hotspot 2.0. Those are under work.
A few points about the implementation:
* iwlmld doesn't have any mutexes, it relies on the
wiphy_lock
* iwlmld is more "resource oriented": stations, links and
interfaces are allocated and freed only after all the
relevant flows are completed.
* Firmware notifications' sizes are validated in a more
structured way.
We would love to see this new op_mode merged in 6.15. The
firmware for this new driver (.97.ucode) is not yet publicly
available but it'll be sent very soon.
People eager to get an early version of this firmware can
contact Emmanuel at:
emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
I've listed the people who directly contributed
code, but many others from various teams have
contributed in other ways.
Co-developed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gabay <daniel.gabay@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anjaneyulu <pagadala.yesu.anjaneyulu@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yedidya Benshimol <yedidya.ben.shimol@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20250216094321.537988-1-miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com/
[fix Kconfig, fix api/phy.h includes, SPDX tag and coding
style issues, duplicated includes per 0-day robot]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
