Patch "mac80211: Suppress NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event if no room" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mac80211: Suppress NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event if no room

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mac80211-suppress-new_peer_candidate-event-if-no-room.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Nov 28 10:56:34 CET 2017
From: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:06:04 +0900
Subject: mac80211: Suppress NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event if no room

From: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 11197d006bcfabf0173a7820a163fcaac420d10e ]

Previously, kernel sends NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event to user land even if
the found peer does not have any room to accept other peer. This causes
continuous connection trials.

Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
@@ -495,12 +495,14 @@ mesh_sta_info_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub
 
 	/* Userspace handles station allocation */
 	if (sdata->u.mesh.user_mpm ||
-	    sdata->u.mesh.security & IEEE80211_MESH_SEC_AUTHED)
-		cfg80211_notify_new_peer_candidate(sdata->dev, addr,
-						   elems->ie_start,
-						   elems->total_len,
-						   GFP_KERNEL);
-	else
+	    sdata->u.mesh.security & IEEE80211_MESH_SEC_AUTHED) {
+		if (mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(elems) &&
+		    mesh_plink_availables(sdata))
+			cfg80211_notify_new_peer_candidate(sdata->dev, addr,
+							   elems->ie_start,
+							   elems->total_len,
+							   GFP_KERNEL);
+	} else
 		sta = __mesh_sta_info_alloc(sdata, addr);
 
 	return sta;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from masashi.honma@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/mac80211-suppress-new_peer_candidate-event-if-no-room.patch
queue-4.4/mac80211-remove-invalid-flag-operations-in-mesh-tsf-synchronization.patch