From: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:43:00 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mac80211: Fixed bug in mesh portal paths
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~9833^2~3125^2~1^2~92
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d618cb81aeea19879975cd1f9a1e707694dfd7c;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

mac80211: Fixed bug in mesh portal paths

Paths to mesh portals were being timed out immediately after each use in
intermediate forwarding nodes.  mppath->exp_time is set to the expiration time
so assigning it to jiffies was marking the path as expired.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index f237df408378..9f2807aeaf52 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1712,7 +1712,6 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
 			mpp_path_add(proxied_addr, mpp_addr, sdata);
 		} else {
 			spin_lock_bh(&mppath->state_lock);
-			mppath->exp_time = jiffies;
 			if (compare_ether_addr(mppath->mpp, mpp_addr) != 0)
 				memcpy(mppath->mpp, mpp_addr, ETH_ALEN);
 			spin_unlock_bh(&mppath->state_lock);