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authorIgor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>2009-09-22 00:25:44 +0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-09-29 17:25:15 -0400
commit1f08e84ff642294e42d138442a388989ffb20865 (patch)
treeb976fa8bba1e54d9361452c4f4da18e6bd9a227a
parenteb1cf0f8f7a9e5a6d573d5bd72c015686a042db0 (diff)
mac80211: Fix [re]association power saving issue on AP side
Consider the following step-by step: 1. A STA authenticates and associates with the AP and exchanges traffic. 2. The STA reports to the AP that it is going to PS state. 3. Some time later the STA device goes to the stand-by mode (not only its wi-fi card, but the device itself) and drops the association state without sending a disassociation frame. 4. The STA device wakes up and begins authentication with an Auth frame as it hasn't been authenticated/associated previously. At the step 4 the AP "remembers" the STA and considers it is still in the PS state, so the AP buffers frames, which it has to send to the STA. But the STA isn't actually in the PS state and so it neither checks TIM bits nor reports to the AP that it isn't power saving. Because of that authentication/[re]association fails. To fix authentication/[re]association stage of this issue, Auth, Assoc Resp and Reassoc Resp frames are transmitted disregarding of STA's power saving state. N.B. This patch doesn't fix further data frame exchange after authentication/[re]association. A patch in hostapd is required to fix that. Signed-off-by: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 5143d203256..fd402829661 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -367,7 +367,10 @@ ieee80211_tx_h_unicast_ps_buf(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx)
struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)tx->skb->data;
u32 staflags;
- if (unlikely(!sta || ieee80211_is_probe_resp(hdr->frame_control)))
+ if (unlikely(!sta || ieee80211_is_probe_resp(hdr->frame_control)
+ || ieee80211_is_auth(hdr->frame_control)
+ || ieee80211_is_assoc_resp(hdr->frame_control)
+ || ieee80211_is_reassoc_resp(hdr->frame_control)))
return TX_CONTINUE;
staflags = get_sta_flags(sta);