mac80211: handle power constraint/country IE better

Currently, mac80211 uses the power constraint IE, and reduces
the regulatory max TX power by it. This can cause issues if
the AP is advertising a large power constraint value matching
a high TX power in its country IE, for example in this case:

...
Country: US  Environment: Indoor/Outdoor
    ...
    Channels [157 - 157] @ 30 dBm
    ...
Power constraint: 13 dB
...

What happened here is that our local regulatory TX power is
15 dBm, and gets reduced by 13 dB so we end up with only
2 dBm effective TX power, which is way too low.

Instead, handle the country IE/power constraint IE combined
and restrict our TX power to the max of the regulatory power
and the maximum power advertised by the AP, in this case
17 dBm (= 30 dBm - 13 dB).

Also print a message when this happens to let the user know
and help us debug issues with it.

Reported-by: Carl A. Cook <CACook@quantum-equities.com>
Tested-by: Carl A. Cook <CACook@quantum-equities.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index d11a6f837d69..8c804550465b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
 	bool disable_dynamic_ps;
 
 	int user_power_level; /* in dBm */
-	int power_constr_level; /* in dBm */
+	int ap_power_level; /* in dBm */
 
 	enum ieee80211_smps_mode smps_mode;