When mac80211 declares connection loss against this AP (typically driven
by inactivity-deauth or beacon-loss), the userspace reauth that follows
sometimes enters a long blackhole: the AP responds to auth with success
but defers assoc with the 802.11v "assoc comeback" timer; ohm retries
faster than the comeback grants permission; the AP eventually fires an
unprotected deauth-reason-6 ("Class 2 frame received from non-
authenticated station"), and recovery only completes via cross-SSID or
cross-channel fallback. Receipts: ~86 s blackhole observed in the
phase-7 rep on 2026-05-07 02:42, with three subsequent BSSIDs returning
assoc comeback timeouts before reason-9 (STA_REQ_ASSOC_WITHOUT_AUTH)
fired. Documented in marfrit/besser:notes/phase4-2026-05-07.md.
When N=3 driver-side connection_loss decisions fire within a 60 s window
on the same vif, skip the ieee80211_connection_loss() path and trigger
the c5.2-introduced bes2600_chrdev_do_bus_reset() instead. The bus
reset removes and re-probes the chip; userspace re-associates with a
fresh chip state, dodging the AP's comeback-timer rejection cycle.
Predicted Phase 7 delta vs current baseline:
- api_connection_loss rate: unchanged (we don't address the trigger)
- conditional probability of >5 s blackhole given event: <= 30 %
- worst-case recovery: 86 s -> < 10 s
Contract pin: bes2600_chrdev_do_bus_reset(sbus_ops, sbus_priv) at
bes2600/bes_chardev.c:455, introduced by c5.2. The function is async-
returning: sbus_ops->bus_reset() schedules an SDIO rescan; the helper
waits up to 3 s for the remove() callback to clear sbus_priv, then
returns. Per-vif state is gone after this point, so the recover work
lives on bes2600_common (hw_priv) and uses the global bes2600_cdev for
the bus_reset call rather than dereferencing per-vif state.
Threshold (3 / 60 s) is well above the steady-state per-vif
connection_loss rate observed in the patch-A phase-7 rep (0.86/h under
sustained load), so a true storm is required to trip it.
Files touched:
- bes2600/bes2600.h: 3 counter fields on struct bes2600_vif, 1
work_struct on struct bes2600_common, 3 prototypes
- bes2600/sta.c: 3 helpers + storm-account hook in
bes2600_connection_loss_work + storm-init in bes2600_vif_setup +
cancel_work_sync in the hw_priv shutdown path; #include bes_chardev.h
was already pulled in by an earlier c-stack patch
- bes2600/main.c: INIT_WORK alongside other hw_priv work_structs
- bes2600/debug.c: ConnectionLossStormRecoveries seq_printf in the
per-vif status seq_file output
The cw1200/cw1260 ancestor has no equivalent; this is a clean
addition. checkpatch.pl --no-tree --strict: clean (0/0/0).
Signed-off-by: Claude (noether) <claude@reauktion.de>
When the LMAC active monitor detects 'link break between lmac and host'
(the hw_buf_used==pending watchdog in bes2600_bh_lmac_active_monitor),
bes2600_chrdev_wifi_force_close(hw_priv, true) is invoked to tear the
device down and prepare for a fresh probe. On the wifi_force_close_work
side this calls bes2600_chrdev_do_system_close() which dispatches
sbus_ops->power_switch(0).
On PineTab2 (RK3566 + BES2600WM over SDIO) this recovery path is a
no-op:
* bes2600_sdio_power_down() writes a SYSTEM_CLOSE host-int message,
clears MMC_CAP_NONREMOVABLE, and schedules sdio_scan_work, which is
the literal one-line stub bes_warn("...this function does
nothing\n").
* bes2600_sdio_on() (the eventual power_switch(1) counterpart)
toggles pdata->powerup, which is NULL on PineTab2 because the
wifi-reset GPIO is owned by sdio_pwrseq, not the bes2600 device
tree node (see arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-pinetab2.dtsi:
'The reset pin is claimed by sdio_mmcseq, It is better to move it
to U-Boot so the OS can use it.').
Net result: the chip is never reset. The function drivers are not
removed (the SDIO core has no signal that the card is gone), the
firmware stays wedged, and a subsequent rmmod bes2600 leaves the SDIO
function in a half-torn-down state. modprobe bes2600 then fails with
'probe with driver bes2600_wlan failed with error -123' (-ENOMEDIUM)
on both functions (:1 wifi, :2 BT-companion) until a full system
reboot.
Observed on PineTab2 (linux-pinetab2 6.19.10-danctnix1-1) after ~150
minutes of background-scan rejects (wsm_generic_confirm 0x0007,
[SCAN] Scan failed (-22)) accumulating until the LMAC stopped
acknowledging TX buffers (hw_buf_used:24 pending:24). Reproducible
under sustained scan pressure.
Add a sbus operation bus_reset() that the recovery path can call when
power_switch() has no effective chip-reset signal of its own. Provide
an SDIO implementation that calls mmc_hw_reset(self->func->card),
which on a multi-function SDIO card (PineTab2 binds func 1 for WLAN
and func 2 for the BT-companion path) takes the remove-and-rescan
path: mmc_sdio_hw_reset() marks the card removed and schedules
mmc_rescan, which tears down the bound function drivers and re-detects
the card on the next sweep, in turn reinvoking bes2600_sdio_probe().
With a single function probed it instead invokes mmc_power_cycle()
directly, which on PineTab2 toggles the wifi-reset GPIO via
sdio_pwrseq.
Add bes2600_chrdev_do_bus_reset() as the chrdev-side helper. It
invokes the bus op and then waits on probe_done_wq for the SDIO
remove() callback to clear sbus_priv, mirroring the wait pattern
already used by bes2600_chrdev_do_system_close() so that a subsequent
bes2600_switch_wifi(true) sees a clean state and can wait on the
fresh probe.
Wire it into bes2600_chrdev_wifi_force_close_work(): when halt_dev is
set (the hard-exception path used by both
bes2600_bh_lmac_active_monitor and bes2600_bh_mcu_active_monitor) and
the underlying bus implements bus_reset, take the new recovery path;
otherwise fall back to the legacy power_switch(0) sequence so this
patch is a no-op on USB or any other future bus that does not provide
bus_reset.
mmc_hw_reset() is exported by the MMC core and is the canonical
recovery primitive; calling it without holding the SDIO host claim is
correct because the multi-func remove-and-rescan path acquires the
host claim via the mmc workqueue, and the single-func mmc_power_cycle
path does not require the host claim.
No DT change is required: this works against the existing PineTab2
DTS, where the wifi-reset GPIO and the optional sdio_pwrkey GPIO (on
v2.0 boards) are both already configured as MMC pwrseq resets.
Signed-off-by: Markus Fritsche <fritsche.markus@gmail.com>
claude-noether
test0r
Julian