From 9cef873798dfcdc10ff40b02abf1de935ceeba85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:10:14 +0200 Subject: mac80211: fix managed mode BSSID handling Currently, we will ask the driver to configure right away when somebody changes the desired BSSID. That's totally strange because then we will configure the driver without even knowing whether the BSS exists. Change this to only configure the BSSID when associated, and configure a zero BSSID when not associated. As a side effect, this fixes an issue with the iwlwifi driver which doesn't implement sta_notify properly and uses the BSSID instead and gets very confused if the BSSID is cleared before we disassociate, which results in the warning Marcel posted [1] and iwlwifi bug 1995 [2]. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/32598 [2] http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1995 Cc: Marcel Holtmann Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/main.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211/main.c') diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 76df5eabf268..6b7e92eaab47 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -219,18 +219,26 @@ void ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, u32 changed) { struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local; + static const u8 zero[ETH_ALEN] = { 0 }; if (!changed) return; - if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) - sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->u.mgd.bssid; - else if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) + if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) { + /* + * While not associated, claim a BSSID of all-zeroes + * so that drivers don't do any weird things with the + * BSSID at that time. + */ + if (sdata->vif.bss_conf.assoc) + sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->u.mgd.bssid; + else + sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = zero; + } else if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->u.ibss.bssid; else if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->dev->dev_addr; else if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif)) { - static const u8 zero[ETH_ALEN] = { 0 }; sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = zero; } else { WARN_ON(1); -- cgit v1.2.3