Re: [PATCH] mac80211: enable assoc check for mesh interfaces

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On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 10:16 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> We already set a station to be associated when peering completes, both
> in user space and in the kernel.  Thus we should always have an
> associated sta before sending data frames to that station.
> 
> Failure to check assoc state can cause crashes in the lower-level driver
> due to transmitting unicast data frames before driver sta structures
> (e.g. ampdu state in ath9k) are initialized.  This occurred when
> forwarding in the presence of fixed mesh paths: frames were transmitted
> to stations with whom we hadn't yet completed peering.

Applied.

johannes

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