[PATCH 4.4 004/146] mac80211: Fix mesh estab_plinks counting in STA removal case

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-07-25T21:08:25Z

From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>

commit 126e7557328a1cd576be4fca95b133a2695283ff upstream.

If a user space program (e.g., wpa_supplicant) deletes a STA entry that
is currently in NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB state, the number of established
plinks counter was not decremented and this could result in rejecting
new plink establishment before really hitting the real maximum plink
limit. For !user_mpm case, this decrementation is handled by
mesh_plink_deactive().

Fix this by decrementing estab_plinks on STA deletion
(mesh_sta_cleanup() gets called from there) so that the counter has a
correct value and the Beacon frame advertisement in Mesh Configuration
element shows the proper value for capability to accept additional
peers.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
net/mac80211/mesh.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -151,14 +151,17 @@ u32 mesh_accept_plinks_update(struct iee
void mesh_sta_cleanup(struct sta_info *sta)
{
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = sta->sdata;
- u32 changed;
+ u32 changed = 0;

/*
* maybe userspace handles peer allocation and peering, but in either
* case the beacon is still generated by the kernel and we might need
* an update.
*/
- changed = mesh_accept_plinks_update(sdata);
+ if (sdata->u.mesh.user_mpm &&
+ sta->mesh->plink_state == NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB)
+ changed |= mesh_plink_dec_estab_count(sdata);
+ changed |= mesh_accept_plinks_update(sdata);
if (!sdata->u.mesh.user_mpm) {
changed |= mesh_plink_deactivate(sta);
del_timer_sync(&sta->mesh->plink_timer);