From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, me@bobcopeland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mesh: Avoid STA expiration timer truncation to u32
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 07:49:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iog7nukb.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421385460-3126-1-git-send-email-masashi.honma@gmail.com> (Masashi Honma's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:17:40 +0900")
Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com> writes:
> On some combination of plink_timeout and HZ, the STA expiration timer will be
> unexpectedly truncated to u32. Maybe there is a question "Who sets such a large
> number to plink_timeout ?". At least wpa_supplicant will set 0xffffffff to
> plink_timeout to disable this timer because wpa_supplicant has it's own
> expiration mechanism.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
For mac80211 patches please use prefix "mac80211: ".
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-16 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-16 5:17 [PATCH] mesh: Avoid STA expiration timer truncation to u32 Masashi Honma
2015-01-16 5:49 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2015-01-16 6:12 ` Masashi Honma
2015-01-16 6:18 ` [PATCH v2] mac80211: " Masashi Honma
2015-01-16 13:31 ` Bob Copeland
2015-01-20 2:44 ` Masashi Honma
2015-01-20 2:47 ` [PATCH v3] " Masashi Honma
2015-01-23 9:42 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-23 14:27 ` Masashi Honma
2015-02-04 2:22 ` [PATCH v4] mac80211: Allow 0 for NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT to disable STA expiration Masashi Honma
2015-02-24 9:46 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <CAFk-A4nyEvsaCah97ohnbLW7a0+GRbnuJGLyFkBLbpWVffn85w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-02-24 10:03 ` Fwd: " Masashi Honma
2015-02-24 13:42 ` [PATCH v5] " Masashi Honma
2015-02-24 20:08 ` Johannes Berg
2015-02-24 23:24 ` Masashi Honma
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