Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:39:13 +0200 | Subject | [2.6.20.17 review 29/58] softmac: Fix ESSID problem |
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Victor Porton reported that the SoftMAC layer had random problem when setting the ESSID : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686 After investigation, it turned out to be worse, the SoftMAC layer is left in an inconsistent state. The fix is pretty trivial.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> --- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c index a824852..dadb65c 100644 --- a/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c +++ b/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c @@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(struct work_struct *work) */ dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: Scanning for networks first. "); ieee80211softmac_notify(mac->dev, IEEE80211SOFTMAC_EVENT_SCAN_FINISHED, ieee80211softmac_assoc_notify_scan, NULL); - if (ieee80211softmac_start_scan(mac)) + if (ieee80211softmac_start_scan(mac)) { dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? "); + mac->associnfo.associating = 0; + mac->associnfo.associated = 0; + } goto out; } else { mac->associnfo.associating = 0; -- 1.5.2.5 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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