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Re: [PATCH 2.6] SoftMAC : fix ESSID problem

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Michael Buesch wrote:
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 00:19:22 Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
	Hi,

	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.
        John : would you mind pushing that to 2.6.23 ?
        Thanks...

        Jean

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx>

-----------------------------------------------------------

--- linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.j1.c	2007-07-09 13:56:13.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c	2007-07-09 13:56:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -271,8 +271,11 @@ ieee80211softmac_assoc_work(struct work_
 			 */
 			dprintk(KERN_INFO PFX "Associate: Scanning for networks first.\n");
 			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?\n");
+				mac->associnfo.associating = 0;
+				mac->associnfo.associated = 0;
+			}
 			goto out;
 		} else {
 			mac->associnfo.associating = 0;


Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch should also be sent to stable@xxxxxxxxxxx

Larry
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