When mac80211 disconnects, it drops all the packets on the queues. This happens after the net stack has been notified that we have no link anymore (netif_carrier_off). netif_carrier_off ensures that no new packets are sent to xmit() callback, but we might have older packets in the middle of the Tx path. These packets will land in the driver's queues after the latter have been flushed. Synchronize_net() between netif_carrier_off and drv_flush() will fix this. Note that we can't call synchronize_net inside ieee80211_flush_queues since there are flows that call ieee80211_flush_queues and don't need synchronize_net() which is an expensive operation. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index 1d6bf01..1eafa63 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -2016,6 +2016,9 @@ static void ieee80211_set_disassoc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, /* disable per-vif ps */ ieee80211_recalc_ps_vif(sdata); + /* flush out all packets */ + synchronize_net(); + /* * drop any frame before deauth/disassoc, this can be data or * management frame. Since we are disconnecting, we should not -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
