This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix CSA in IBSS mode
to the 4.9-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:
mac80211-fix-csa-in-ibss-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f181d6a3bcc35633facf5f3925699021c13492c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:32:05 +0100
Subject: mac80211: fix CSA in IBSS mode
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From: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f181d6a3bcc35633facf5f3925699021c13492c5 upstream.
Add the missing IBSS capability flag during capability init as it needs
to be inserted into the generated beacon in order for CSA to work.
Fixes: cd7760e62c2ac ("mac80211: add support for CSA in IBSS mode")
Signed-off-by: Piotr Gawlowicz <gawlowicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mikołaj Chwalisz <chwalisz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/ibss.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -487,14 +487,14 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_csa_beacon(struct iee
struct beacon_data *presp, *old_presp;
struct cfg80211_bss *cbss;
const struct cfg80211_bss_ies *ies;
- u16 capability = 0;
+ u16 capability = WLAN_CAPABILITY_IBSS;
u64 tsf;
int ret = 0;
sdata_assert_lock(sdata);
if (ifibss->privacy)
- capability = WLAN_CAPABILITY_PRIVACY;
+ capability |= WLAN_CAPABILITY_PRIVACY;
cbss = cfg80211_get_bss(sdata->local->hw.wiphy, ifibss->chandef.chan,
ifibss->bssid, ifibss->ssid,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from koen.vandeputte@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mac80211-fix-csa-in-ibss-mode.patch