mac80211: Fix IBSS disconnect
authorSujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:47:28 +0000 (14:17 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:34:42 +0000 (13:34 -0800)
commit6ad076da3661424f02b6bcfd840103f9e0d1cf3b
tree85243aecd2fe181a09477c5d6853c010999c769b
parentd88957ea3195d0fd4ccd239bb674a82e3cf961a5
mac80211: Fix IBSS disconnect

commit d4c80d9df6d1e4473b1409e4d220ca3d1612125c upstream.

Currently, when a station leaves an IBSS network, the
corresponding BSS is not dropped from cfg80211 if there are
other active stations in the network. But, the small
window that is present when trying to determine a station's
status based on IEEE80211_IBSS_MERGE_INTERVAL introduces
a race.

Instead of trying to keep the BSS, always remove it when
leaving an IBSS network. There is not much benefit to retain
the BSS entry since it will be added with a subsequent join
operation.

This fixes an issue where a dangling BSS entry causes ath9k
to wait for a beacon indefinitely.

Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/ibss.c