From: Karthikeyan Kathirvel Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:29:07 +0000 (+0530) Subject: mac80211: choose first enabled channel for monitor X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=041c881a0ba8a75f71118bd9766b78f04beed469;p=linux.git mac80211: choose first enabled channel for monitor 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1615440547-7661-1-git-send-email-kathirve@codeaurora.org [reword commit message, comment, code cleanups] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 4f3f8bb58e76c..1b9c82616606b 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -973,8 +973,19 @@ 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) {