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authorEliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>2011-10-30 14:41:59 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-11-07 19:19:13 +0100
commit3432f9233704a66e6067944339a311744243707d (patch)
treeeca01496a63c79f4d6468df7f9dcec2e8a9fb22d /net
parentbrcm80211: smac: eliminate a null pointer dereference in dma.c (diff)
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mac80211: use min rate as basic rate for buggy APs
Some buggy APs (and even P2P_GO) don't advertise their basic rates in the association response. In such case, use the min supported rate as the basic rate. Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mlme.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 17258feaab9b..d3b408cda08d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -1485,6 +1485,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_assoc_success(struct ieee80211_work *wk,
int i, j, err;
bool have_higher_than_11mbit = false;
u16 ap_ht_cap_flags;
+ int min_rate = INT_MAX, min_rate_index = -1;
/* AssocResp and ReassocResp have identical structure */
@@ -1551,6 +1552,10 @@ static bool ieee80211_assoc_success(struct ieee80211_work *wk,
rates |= BIT(j);
if (is_basic)
basic_rates |= BIT(j);
+ if (rate < min_rate) {
+ min_rate = rate;
+ min_rate_index = j;
+ }
break;
}
}
@@ -1568,11 +1573,25 @@ static bool ieee80211_assoc_success(struct ieee80211_work *wk,
rates |= BIT(j);
if (is_basic)
basic_rates |= BIT(j);
+ if (rate < min_rate) {
+ min_rate = rate;
+ min_rate_index = j;
+ }
break;
}
}
}
+ /*
+ * some buggy APs don't advertise basic_rates. use the lowest
+ * supported rate instead.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(!basic_rates) && min_rate_index >= 0) {
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: No basic rates in AssocResp. "
+ "Using min supported rate instead.\n", sdata->name);
+ basic_rates = BIT(min_rate_index);
+ }
+
sta->sta.supp_rates[wk->chan->band] = rates;
sdata->vif.bss_conf.basic_rates = basic_rates;