This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix IBSS join by initializing last_scan_completed
to the 3.15-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-ibss-join-by-initializing-last_scan_completed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c7d37a66e345df2fdf1aa7b2c9a6d3d53846ca5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Krzysztof=20Ha=C5=82asa?= <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:14:46 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix IBSS join by initializing last_scan_completed
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Krzysztof=20Ha=C5=82asa?= <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
commit c7d37a66e345df2fdf1aa7b2c9a6d3d53846ca5b upstream.
Without this fix, freshly rebooted Linux creates a new IBSS
instead of joining an existing one. Only when jiffies counter
overflows after 5 minutes the IBSS can be successfully joined.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
[edit commit message slightly]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/ibss.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -1648,6 +1648,7 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211
sdata->u.ibss.control_port = params->control_port;
sdata->u.ibss.userspace_handles_dfs = params->userspace_handles_dfs;
sdata->u.ibss.basic_rates = params->basic_rates;
+ sdata->u.ibss.last_scan_completed = jiffies;
/* fix basic_rates if channel does not support these rates */
rate_flags = ieee80211_chandef_rate_flags(¶ms->chandef);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khalasa@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/mac80211-fix-ibss-join-by-initializing-last_scan_completed.patch
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