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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
To: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS join
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:42:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401281542.03451.sw@simonwunderlich.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390874095-28008-1-git-send-email-sujith@msujith.org>


> From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
> 
> 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.

Thank you Sujith, works fine with and without setting a fixed BSSID.

Feel free to add

Tested-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>

Cheers,
    Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-28 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28  1:54 [PATCH] mac80211: Fix IBSS join Sujith Manoharan
2014-01-28 14:42 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]
2014-01-29 12:08 ` Johannes Berg
2014-01-29 12:19   ` Simon Wunderlich
2014-01-30  7:35     ` Sujith Manoharan
2014-01-30  8:10       ` Johannes Berg
2014-01-30 10:58         ` Simon Wunderlich

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