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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.31 v2] mac80211: fix wext bssid/ssid setting
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:35:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245090932.23912.8.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245082438.23912.7.camel@johannes.local>

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On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 18:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> When changing to a new BSSID or SSID, the code in
> ieee80211_set_disassoc() needs to have the old data
> still valid to be able to disconnect and clean up
> properly. Currently, however, the old data is thrown
> away before ieee80211_set_disassoc() is ever called,
> so fix that by calling the function _before_ the old
> data is overwritten.
> 
> This is (one of) the issue(s) causing mac80211 to hold
> cfg80211's BSS structs forever, and them thus being
> returned in scan results after they're long gone.

Also fixes
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2015

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-15 16:09 [PATCH 2.6.31] mac80211: fix wext bssid/ssid setting Johannes Berg
2009-06-15 16:13 ` [PATCH 2.6.31 v2] " Johannes Berg
2009-06-15 18:35   ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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