Unicast frame with unknown forwarding information always trigger
the path discovery assuming destination is always located inside the
MBSS. This patch allows the forwarding to look for mesh gate if path
discovery inside the MBSS has failed.
Reported-by: Cedric Voncken <cedric.voncken@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: rebase on mac80211-next and redefine the logic clearer (Johannes & Thomas)
net/mac80211/tx.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 5b9602b..c79860f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1844,9 +1844,24 @@ netdev_tx_t ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
}
if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(skb->data)) {
+ struct sta_info *next_hop;
+ bool mpp_lookup = true;
+
mpath = mesh_path_lookup(sdata, skb->data);
- if (!mpath)
+ if (mpath) {
+ mpp_lookup = false;
+ next_hop = rcu_dereference(mpath->next_hop);
+ if (!next_hop ||
+ !(mpath->flags & (MESH_PATH_ACTIVE |
+ MESH_PATH_RESOLVING)))
+ mpp_lookup = true;
+ }
+
+ if (mpp_lookup)
mppath = mpp_path_lookup(sdata, skb->data);
+
+ if (mppath && mpath)
+ mesh_path_del(mpath->sdata, mpath->dst);
}
/*
--
1.7.0.4
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