iwlwifi: mvm: don't use transmit queue hang detection when it is not possible

When we act as an AP, new firmware versions handle
internally the power saving clients and the driver doesn't
know that the peers went to sleep. It is, hence, possible
that a peer goes to sleep for a long time and stop pulling
frames. This will cause its transmit queue to hang which is
a condition that triggers the recovery flow in the driver.

While this client is certainly buggy (it should have pulled
the frame based on the TIM IE in the beacon), we can't blow
up because of a buggy client.

Change the current implementation to not enable the
transmit queue hang detection on queues that serve peers
when we act as an AP / GO.

We can still enable this mechanism using the debug
configuration which can come in handy when we want to
debug why the client doesn't wake up.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/utils.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/utils.c
index d46115e2d69e1d6de1fcc3126e3f1af8a59da99c..19c1d1f76e15eb2a2dbf61c8abb175b2c253d7a3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/utils.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/utils.c
@@ -1134,9 +1134,18 @@ unsigned int iwl_mvm_get_wd_timeout(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
        unsigned int default_timeout =
                cmd_q ? IWL_DEF_WD_TIMEOUT : mvm->cfg->base_params->wd_timeout;
 
-       if (!iwl_fw_dbg_trigger_enabled(mvm->fw, FW_DBG_TRIGGER_TXQ_TIMERS))
+       if (!iwl_fw_dbg_trigger_enabled(mvm->fw, FW_DBG_TRIGGER_TXQ_TIMERS)) {
+               /*
+                * We can't know when the station is asleep or awake, so we
+                * must disable the queue hang detection.
+                */
+               if (fw_has_capa(&mvm->fw->ucode_capa,
+                               IWL_UCODE_TLV_CAPA_STA_PM_NOTIF) &&
+                   vif && vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
+                       return IWL_WATCHDOG_DISABLED;
                return iwlmvm_mod_params.tfd_q_hang_detect ?
                        default_timeout : IWL_WATCHDOG_DISABLED;
+       }
 
        trigger = iwl_fw_dbg_get_trigger(mvm->fw, FW_DBG_TRIGGER_TXQ_TIMERS);
        txq_timer = (void *)trigger->data;