This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: mac80211: fix waiting for beacons logic to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: wifi-mac80211-fix-waiting-for-beacons-logic.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 308103ac046e69475d34976bdc07be0f48cb4134 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 31 16:48:56 2024 +0100 wifi: mac80211: fix waiting for beacons logic [ Upstream commit a0b4f2291319c5d47ecb196b90400814fdcfd126 ] This should be waiting if we don't have a beacon yet, but somehow I managed to invert the logic. Fix that. Fixes: 74e1309acedc ("wifi: mac80211: mlme: look up beacon elems only if needed") Link: https://msgid.link/20240131164856.922701229546.I239b379e7cee04608e73c016b737a5245e5b23dd@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index c07645c999f9..c6f0da028a2a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -7221,8 +7221,7 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_assoc(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, rcu_read_lock(); beacon_ies = rcu_dereference(req->bss->beacon_ies); - - if (beacon_ies) { + if (!beacon_ies) { /* * Wait up to one beacon interval ... * should this be more if we miss one?