Both wpa_supplicant and mac80211 has inactivity timer. By default
wpa_supplicant will be timed out in 5 minutes and mac80211's it is 30 minutes.
If wpa_supplicant uses more long timer than mac80211, wpa_supplicant will get
unexpected disconnection by mac80211. This patch adds functionality of disabling
mac80211 inactivity timer to avoid to prevent wpa_supplicant inactivity timer.
I have thought setting 0xffffffff to NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT will solve
this problem without this patch. But the approach does not work on 32 bit
system. To explain the reason, I will show STA expiration rule in kernel. This
is the expression.
(current jiffies) > (frame Rx jiffies + NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT * 250)
On 32bit system, right side could be over flow and be unexpected small value if
NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT is sufficiently large. STA expiration occurs by
this reason. So I made this patch.
Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 3 ++-
net/mac80211/mesh.c | 3 ++-
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
index 1cbc3aa..0c71180 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h
@@ -3092,7 +3092,8 @@ enum nl80211_mesh_power_mode {
*
* @NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT: If no tx activity is seen from a STA we've
* established peering with for longer than this time (in seconds), then
- * remove it from the STA's list of peers. Default is 30 minutes.
+ * remove it from the STA's list of peers. You may set this to 0 to disable
+ * the removal of the STA. Default is 30 minutes.
*
* @__NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 0c8b2a7..acf441f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ static void ieee80211_mesh_housekeeping(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh = &sdata->u.mesh;
u32 changed;
- ieee80211_sta_expire(sdata, ifmsh->mshcfg.plink_timeout * HZ);
+ if (ifmsh->mshcfg.plink_timeout > 0)
+ ieee80211_sta_expire(sdata, ifmsh->mshcfg.plink_timeout * HZ);
mesh_path_expire(sdata);
changed = mesh_accept_plinks_update(sdata);
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index e9ad9d9..bef52af 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5261,7 +5261,7 @@ do { \
FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, dot11MeshAwakeWindowDuration,
0, 65535, mask,
NL80211_MESHCONF_AWAKE_WINDOW, nla_get_u16);
- FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, plink_timeout, 1, 0xffffffff,
+ FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, plink_timeout, 0, 0xffffffff,
mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT,
nla_get_u32);
if (mask_out)
--
2.1.0
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