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authorEliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>2014-02-11 12:30:18 +0200
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2014-08-26 14:12:02 +0200
commitd7c722da3c3aeed898eccbad143ff6bfd84812e5 (patch)
tree8d43d643be7882551832c799c15e070bf2dc551a
parent27b249776f31bf46e2436bf3e41624a208e7ba61 (diff)
mac80211: reset probe_send_count also in HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR case
commit 448cd2e248732326632957e52ea9c44729affcb2 upstream. In case of beacon_loss with IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR device, mac80211 probes the ap (and disconnects on timeout) but ignores the ack. If we already got an ack, there's no reason to continue disconnecting. this can help devices that supports IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR only partially (e.g. take care of keep alives, but does not probe the ap. In case the device wants to disconnect without probing, it can just call ieee80211_connection_loss. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h2
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mlme.c4
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index cc6035f1a2f1..0218c3d67f46 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1449,8 +1449,6 @@ struct ieee80211_tx_control {
* @IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR:
* The hardware performs its own connection monitoring, including
* periodic keep-alives to the AP and probing the AP on beacon loss.
- * When this flag is set, signaling beacon-loss will cause an immediate
- * change to disassociated state.
*
* @IEEE80211_HW_NEED_DTIM_BEFORE_ASSOC:
* This device needs to get data from beacon before association (i.e.
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index cd8d55c99ceb..591d990a06e7 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -131,13 +131,13 @@ void ieee80211_sta_reset_conn_monitor(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
if (unlikely(!sdata->u.mgd.associated))
return;
+ ifmgd->probe_send_count = 0;
+
if (sdata->local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR)
return;
mod_timer(&sdata->u.mgd.conn_mon_timer,
round_jiffies_up(jiffies + IEEE80211_CONNECTION_IDLE_TIME));
-
- ifmgd->probe_send_count = 0;
}
static int ecw2cw(int ecw)