releases/2.6.36.2/mac80211-fix-ibss-station-got-expired-immediately.patch

   1 From c8716d9dc13c7f6ee92f2bfc6cc3b723b417bff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
   2 From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
   3 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:59:57 +0530
   4 Subject: mac80211: Fix ibss station got expired immediately
   5
   6 From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
   7
   8 commit c8716d9dc13c7f6ee92f2bfc6cc3b723b417bff8 upstream.
   9
  10 Station addition in ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt is not updating
  11 sta->last_rx which is causing station expiry in ieee80211_ibss_work
  12 path. So sta addition and deletion happens repeatedly.
  13
  14 Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
  15 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
  16 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
  17
  18 ---
  19  net/mac80211/ibss.c |    1 +
  20  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
  21
  22 --- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
  23 +++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
  24 @@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ struct sta_info *ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(
  25         if (!sta)
  26                 return NULL;
  27
  28 +       sta->last_rx = jiffies;
  29         set_sta_flags(sta, WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED);
  30
  31         /* make sure mandatory rates are always added */