Commit 20eb7ea9 authored May 03, 2016 by David Spinadel Committed by Johannes Berg May 12, 2016

mac80211: remove disconnected APs from BSS table



In some cases, after a sudden AP disappearing and reconnection to
another AP in the same ESS, user space gets the old AP in scan
results (cached). User space may decide to roam to that old AP
which will cause a disconnection and longer recovery.
Remove APs that are probably out of range from BSS table.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 866daf6e

net/mac80211/mlme.c

+5 −0

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		@@ -2399,6 +2399,11 @@ static void __ieee80211_disconnect(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
		return;
		}

		/* AP is probably out of range (or not reachable for another reason) so
		* remove the bss struct for that AP.
		*/
		cfg80211_unlink_bss(local->hw.wiphy, ifmgd->associated);

		ieee80211_set_disassoc(sdata, IEEE80211_STYPE_DEAUTH,
		WLAN_REASON_DISASSOC_DUE_TO_INACTIVITY,
		true, frame_buf);

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