mac80211: don't call bss_info_changed on p2p-device/monitor

Since the idle decision rework, mac80211 started calling
bss_info_changed() for the driver's monitor interface,
which causes a crash for iwlwifi, but drivers generally
don't expect this to happen. Therefore, avoid it.

While at it, also prevent calling it in such cases and
only print a warning. For the P2P Device interface the
idle will no longer be called (no channel context), so
also prevent that and warn on it.

Reported-by: Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/chan.c b/net/mac80211/chan.c
index 2e6faeda22ad..d91ccfcaa6d1 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/chan.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/chan.c
@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ static int ieee80211_assign_vif_chanctx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
         ieee80211_recalc_txpower(sdata);
         sdata->vif.bss_conf.idle = false;
-        ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
+
+        if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE &&
+            sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+                ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
 
         return 0;
 }
@@ -186,7 +189,10 @@ static void ieee80211_unassign_vif_chanctx(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
         rcu_assign_pointer(sdata->vif.chanctx_conf, NULL);
 
         sdata->vif.bss_conf.idle = true;
-        ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
+
+        if (sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE &&
+            sdata->vif.type != NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+                ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_IDLE);
 
         drv_unassign_vif_chanctx(local, sdata, ctx);