From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:48:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mac80211: remove bogus code
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~9833^2~3968^2~449^2~111
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6e898cfea5f35d64f850277e7fa295c386cf953;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

mac80211: remove bogus code

It's not right to do something here when returning an
error, and hostapd should never have relied on it as
it only fixes up a small part of the problem anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 5608f6c68413..a0c7eb18a76d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -738,13 +738,6 @@ static int ieee80211_add_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 
 	err = sta_info_insert(sta);
 	if (err) {
-		/* STA has been freed */
-		if (err == -EEXIST && layer2_update) {
-			/* Need to update layer 2 devices on reassociation */
-			sta = sta_info_get(local, mac);
-			if (sta)
-				ieee80211_send_layer2_update(sta);
-		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return err;
 	}