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authorMasashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>2016-11-30 09:06:04 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-30 08:37:27 +0000
commit7e927748d4db4d248e919e44f4dd4891ba6b4d42 (patch)
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mac80211: Suppress NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event if no room
[ Upstream commit 11197d006bcfabf0173a7820a163fcaac420d10e ] Previously, kernel sends NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event to user land even if the found peer does not have any room to accept other peer. This causes continuous connection trials. Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
index bd3d55eb21d4..9f02e54ad2a5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c
@@ -495,12 +495,14 @@ mesh_sta_info_alloc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u8 *addr,
/* Userspace handles station allocation */
if (sdata->u.mesh.user_mpm ||
- sdata->u.mesh.security & IEEE80211_MESH_SEC_AUTHED)
- cfg80211_notify_new_peer_candidate(sdata->dev, addr,
- elems->ie_start,
- elems->total_len,
- GFP_KERNEL);
- else
+ sdata->u.mesh.security & IEEE80211_MESH_SEC_AUTHED) {
+ if (mesh_peer_accepts_plinks(elems) &&
+ mesh_plink_availables(sdata))
+ cfg80211_notify_new_peer_candidate(sdata->dev, addr,
+ elems->ie_start,
+ elems->total_len,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ } else
sta = __mesh_sta_info_alloc(sdata, addr);
return sta;