On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 19:38 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 19:32 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 01:19:59 PM Harshal Chhaya wrote: > > > Most of the disconnects seem to be caused by beacons that update the > > > TIM IE but not the overall length. The result is a corrupted RSN IE > > > (e.g. the IE length says 20 bytes but the IE is only 19 bytes in size) > > > which causes the clients to disconnect. This problem lasts for only > > > one beacon (i.e. the next beacon has the right size) but it is enough > > > to cause the clients to disconnect. Is there a way to fix this? > > Now that is really interesting. Do you know if the TIM IE is generated > > properly by ieee80211_beacon_add_tim in net/mac80211/tx.c? > > Hm, looking at that code, is it really correct? > > tim = pos = (u8 *) skb_put(skb, 6); > *pos++ = WLAN_EID_TIM; > *pos++ = 4; > ... > tim[1] = n2 - n1 + 4; > skb_put(skb, n2 - n1); > > > shouldn't the latter be skb_put(skb, n2 - n1 - 2)? Nah, I'm just confused. johannes -- 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
