kernel/mwifiex-handle-association-failure-case-correctly.patch
John W. Linville bbd9ebecee mwifiex: handle association failure case correctly
ath9k: Fix kernel panic during driver initilization
mwifiex: add NULL checks in driver unload path
bcma: don't fail for bad SPROM CRC
zd1211rw: firmware needs duration_id set to zero for non-pspoll frames
mac80211: Fix a rwlock bad magic bug
rtlwifi: Modify rtl_pci_init to return 0 on success
2012-02-13 11:20:54 -05:00

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From b7097eb75fa11c302dcdec83f1dbfa874e0af0d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:41:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: handle association failure case correctly
Currently even if association is failed "iw link" shows some
information about connected BSS and "Tx timeout" error is seen in
dmesg log.
This patch fixes below issues in the code to handle assoc failure
case correctly.
1) "status" variable in mwifiex_wait_queue_complete() is not
correctly updated. Hence driver doesn't inform cfg80211 stack
about association failure.
2) During association network queues are stopped but carrier is
not cleared, which gives Tx timeout error in failure case
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index 470ca75..b0fbf5d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int mwifiex_copy_mcast_addr(struct mwifiex_multicast_list *mlist,
int mwifiex_wait_queue_complete(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
{
bool cancel_flag = false;
- int status = adapter->cmd_wait_q.status;
+ int status;
struct cmd_ctrl_node *cmd_queued;
if (!adapter->cmd_queued)
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ int mwifiex_wait_queue_complete(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
mwifiex_cancel_pending_ioctl(adapter);
dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "cmd cancel\n");
}
+
+ status = adapter->cmd_wait_q.status;
adapter->cmd_wait_q.status = 0;
return status;
@@ -240,6 +242,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
if (!netif_queue_stopped(priv->netdev))
mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
+ if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
+ netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev);
/* Clear any past association response stored for
* application retrieval */
@@ -271,6 +275,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
if (!netif_queue_stopped(priv->netdev))
mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
+ if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
+ netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev);
if (!ret) {
dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "info: network found in scan"
--
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