From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [154/165] mac80211: fix supported rates IE if AP doesnt give us its rates
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:16:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100730171513.567445430@clark.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100730171550.GA1299@kroah.com
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
commit 76f273640134f3eb8257179cd5b3bc6ba5fe4a96 upstream.
If AP do not provide us supported rates before assiociation, send
all rates we are supporting instead of empty information element.
v1 -> v2: Add comment.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -269,12 +269,6 @@ static void ieee80211_send_assoc(struct
if (wk->bss->wmm_used)
wmm = 1;
- /* get all rates supported by the device and the AP as
- * some APs don't like getting a superset of their rates
- * in the association request (e.g. D-Link DAP 1353 in
- * b-only mode) */
- rates_len = ieee80211_compatible_rates(wk->bss, sband, &rates);
-
if ((wk->bss->cbss.capability & WLAN_CAPABILITY_SPECTRUM_MGMT) &&
(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_SPECTRUM_MGMT))
capab |= WLAN_CAPABILITY_SPECTRUM_MGMT;
@@ -309,6 +303,17 @@ static void ieee80211_send_assoc(struct
*pos++ = wk->ssid_len;
memcpy(pos, wk->ssid, wk->ssid_len);
+ if (wk->bss->supp_rates_len) {
+ /* get all rates supported by the device and the AP as
+ * some APs don't like getting a superset of their rates
+ * in the association request (e.g. D-Link DAP 1353 in
+ * b-only mode) */
+ rates_len = ieee80211_compatible_rates(wk->bss, sband, &rates);
+ } else {
+ rates = ~0;
+ rates_len = sband->n_bitrates;
+ }
+
/* add all rates which were marked to be used above */
supp_rates_len = rates_len;
if (supp_rates_len > 8)
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