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offchannel: handle out of order ACKs/events 

Its been seen (so far only in mac80211_hwsim + UML) where an
offchannel requests ACK comes after the ROC started event. This
causes the ROC started event to never call back to notify since
info->roc_cookie is unset and it appears to be coming from an
external process.

We can detect this situation in the ROC notify event by checking
if there is a pending ROC command and if info->roc_cookie does
not match. This can also be true for an external event so we just
set a new "early_cookie" member and return.

Then, when the ACK comes in for the ROC request, we can validate
if the prior event was associated with IWD or some external
process. If it was from IWD call the started callback, otherwise
the ROC notify event should come later and handled under the
normal logic where the cookies match.
This commit is contained in:
James Prestwood 2023-10-25 10:56:39 -07:00 committed by Denis Kenzior
parent 0a502562c3
commit 49b9eae18c
1 changed files with 43 additions and 15 deletions
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@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ struct offchannel_info {
uint32_t roc_cmd_id;
uint64_t roc_cookie;
uint64_t early_cookie;
offchannel_started_cb_t started;
offchannel_destroy_cb_t destroy;
@ -57,14 +58,6 @@ struct offchannel_info {
static struct l_genl_family *nl80211;
static struct l_queue *offchannel_list;
static bool match_wdev(const void *a, const void *user_data)
{
const struct offchannel_info *info = a;
const uint64_t *wdev_id = user_data;
return info->wdev_id == *wdev_id;
}
static bool match_id(const void *a, const void *user_data)
{
const struct offchannel_info *info = a;
@ -106,9 +99,20 @@ static void offchannel_roc_cb(struct l_genl_msg *msg, void *user_data)
goto work_done;
}
/* This request was cancelled, and ROC needs to be cancelled */
/*
* If the request was cancelled prior to kernel sending the ACK,
* cancel now.
*
* If the ROC event came before the ACK, call back now since the
* callback was skipped in the notify event. There is the potential that
* an external process issued the ROC, but if the cookies don't match
* here we can be sure it wasn't for us. In this case the notify event
* will behave as normal and call started().
*/
if (info->needs_cancel)
offchannel_cancel_roc(info);
else if (info->early_cookie == info->roc_cookie && info->started)
info->started(info->user_data);
return;
@ -254,7 +258,8 @@ work_done:
static void offchannel_mlme_notify(struct l_genl_msg *msg, void *user_data)
{
struct offchannel_info *info;
struct offchannel_info *info = NULL;
const struct l_queue_entry *e;
uint64_t wdev_id;
uint64_t cookie;
uint8_t cmd;
@ -270,12 +275,35 @@ static void offchannel_mlme_notify(struct l_genl_msg *msg, void *user_data)
NL80211_ATTR_UNSPEC) < 0)
return;
info = l_queue_find(offchannel_list, match_wdev, &wdev_id);
if (!info)
return;
for (e = l_queue_get_entries(offchannel_list); e; e = e->next) {
struct offchannel_info *i = e->data;
/* ROC must have been started elsewhere, not by IWD */
if (info->roc_cookie != cookie)
if (i->wdev_id != wdev_id)
continue;
/* Normal case, kernel has ACK'ed */
if (i->roc_cookie == cookie) {
info = i;
break;
}
/*
* If there is a pending request and no ACK yet this could be:
* - an early event coming prior to the ACK
* - an event coming from an external ROC request (we just
* happened to have also sent an ROC request).
*
* We can't tell where the event originated until we recieve our
* ACK so set early_cookie to track it.
*/
if (i->roc_cmd_id != 0 && l_genl_family_request_sent(nl80211,
i->roc_cmd_id)) {
i->early_cookie = cookie;
return;
}
}
if (!info)
return;
switch (cmd) {