Give slow hardware some time to do the TSF sync, to not run into an IBSS merging endless loop in some rarely situations.
Version 2 adds a comment.
Version 3: I had forgotten to change the bracket.
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index 1bbfc70..ea737bf 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -332,6 +332,10 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_bss_info(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
jiffies);
#endif
+ /* give slow hardware some time to do the TSF sync */
+ if (rx_timestamp < 0x400000)
+ goto put_bss;
+
if (beacon_timestamp > rx_timestamp) {
#ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: beacon TSF higher than "
--
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