The bes2600 driver is a fork of the upstream cw1200 driver
(drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/, ST-Ericsson, Dmitry Tarnyagin
2010-2011). The fork's file headers have three GPL-compliance issues:
1. NO SPDX-License-Identifier on any of 48 source files (cw1200
mainline has them on all 25). kernel.org-mandated since 2017.
2. Original "Copyright (c) 2010, ST-Ericsson" lines stripped from
all files inherited from cw1200, replaced with
"Copyright (c) 2010, Bestechnic" — factually impossible
(Bestechnic did not author the 2010 work) and a GPL-2.0 §1
attribution-preservation violation.
3. The "GPL version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation"
boilerplate paragraph is redundant alongside SPDX and is the
legacy form modern kernel sources have replaced.
This patch corrects all three for the 48 .c/.h files in bes2600/:
- Adds `// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only` (or `/* ... */`
for headers) as line 1 of every file.
- Restores `Copyright (c) 2010, ST-Ericsson` + `Author: Dmitry
Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@lockless.no>` as the FIRST copyright
chain entry on all 22 files derived from cw1200 (bh.{c,h},
debug.{c,h}, fwio.{c,h}, hwio.{c,h}, main.c, pm.{c,h},
queue.{c,h}, scan.{c,h}, sta.{c,h}, txrx.{c,h}, wsm.{c,h}).
- Keeps `Copyright (c) 2022, Bestechnic (Beijing) Co., Ltd.` as
the SECOND chain entry where Bestechnic genuinely contributed.
- Notes "Derived from cw1200_sdio.c" + ST-Ericsson copyright on
bes2600_sdio.c (heavy derivation, not a literal rename).
- Notes "Replaces hwbus.h from cw1200/" + ST-Ericsson copyright
on sbus.h.
- Preserves the prism54/islsm authorship chain on main.c and
bes2600.h (Michael Wu 2006 + Jean-Baptiste Note 2004-2006).
- Drops the GPL-2.0 boilerplate paragraph in favour of SPDX.
No code changes — only file-header comment blocks. Module build is
unaffected (verified by header-only diff scope).
This is a prerequisite for any kernel.org submission attempt. The
existing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") + MODULE_AUTHOR(Tarnyagin@stericsson.com)
declarations were already present and are unchanged here; the
mismatch between MODULE_AUTHOR and the (since-corrected) per-file
copyrights is now resolved.
When the BES2600 firmware reports WSM_STATUS_DECRYPTFAILURE for a burst
of received frames (typically because the host's PTK or GTK has fallen
out of sync with the AP), the AP eventually concludes that the STA is
not authenticated and emits an unprotected deauth-reason-6 ("Class 2
frame received from non-authenticated station"). On the deployed
pinetab2 + bes2600 stack this AP-initiated deauth has been observed to
leave the link blackholed for up to 109 s before userspace finds a
different SSID/channel to recover on. (Receipts at
https://git.reauktion.de/marfrit/besser, notes/phase5-2026-05-06.md.)
Add a sliding-window counter on each bes2600_vif: when 5 decrypt
failures fire within 5 s, schedule a worker that calls
ieee80211_connection_loss(vif). mac80211 then performs immediate
disassociation; userspace (NetworkManager / wpa_supplicant) reconnects
with fresh keys before the AP gets a chance to fire its unprotected
deauth.
Predicted Phase 7 delta vs the unpatched baseline:
- decrypt-burst rate: unchanged (this does not address root cause)
- AP-deauth-6 rate: <= 0.2 of baseline
- conditional probability of >5s blackhole given a burst:
100% -> <= 10%
- worst-case recovery time: 109s -> <5s
Contract pin: ieee80211_connection_loss() per
include/net/mac80211.h: "may also be called if the connection needs to
be terminated for some other reason... will cause immediate change to
disassociated state, without connection recovery attempts." Userspace
recovery is the existing NM/wpa_supplicant path. The worker context
satisfies the implicit process-context expectation.
Files touched:
- bes2600/bes2600.h: 4 new fields on struct bes2600_vif + 2 prototypes
- bes2600/txrx.c: new helpers + the call site at the existing
WSM_STATUS_DECRYPTFAILURE log point (the unconditional "goto drop"
branch in bes2600_rx_cb)
- bes2600/sta.c: bes2600_decrypt_storm_init() in bes2600_vif_setup;
cancel_work_sync() in bes2600_remove_interface, alongside the
existing per-vif cancel_*_work_sync block. Safe under the kernel
cancel_work_sync contract: the work_struct is INIT_WORK'd in setup,
so the call is valid; it blocks until any in-flight handler returns,
ensuring no use-after-free of priv when mac80211 frees the vif; and
it is idempotent (subsequent calls just return false).
- bes2600/debug.c: DecryptStormRecoveries seq_printf in the per-vif
status seq_file output
Threshold (5/5s) is set well above the steady-state per-vif decrypt-
fail rate observed in measurement (~1/min even under sustained 1 MB/s
load), so a true storm is required to trip it. The cw1200/cw1260
ancestor has no equivalent storm-recovery; this is a clean addition.
checkpatch.pl --no-tree --strict: clean (0/0/0).
Signed-off-by: Claude (noether) <claude@reauktion.de>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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