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authorAvinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>2014-12-05 17:53:42 (GMT)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2014-12-05 19:15:25 (GMT)
commitfc99dd0829fd4d080b78141ade9a79bcc3dcd160 (patch)
tree5210e90d67e3b9de583201e67a82ebe97692a124 /drivers/net/wireless
parentc11fb9857f8c7951e30509c5af72ada8e121be8b (diff)
downloadlinux-fc99dd0829fd4d080b78141ade9a79bcc3dcd160.tar.xz
mwifiex: do not process broadcast mac address for del_sta
Generally broadcast mac address deauth is followed by stop_ap or start_ap. In both cases, FW already has provision to send deauth; so there is no need to handle broadcast mac deauthentication. Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c39
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index e111ff5..4a66a655 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -1296,31 +1296,30 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_del_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
{
struct mwifiex_private *priv = mwifiex_netdev_get_priv(dev);
struct mwifiex_sta_node *sta_node;
+ u8 deauth_mac[ETH_ALEN];
unsigned long flags;
if (list_empty(&priv->sta_list) || !priv->bss_started)
return 0;
- if (!params->mac || is_broadcast_ether_addr(params->mac)) {
- wiphy_dbg(wiphy, "%s: NULL/broadcast mac address\n", __func__);
- list_for_each_entry(sta_node, &priv->sta_list, list) {
- if (mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_UAP_STA_DEAUTH,
- HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
- sta_node->mac_addr, true))
- return -1;
- }
- } else {
- wiphy_dbg(wiphy, "%s: mac address %pM\n", __func__,
- params->mac);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->sta_list_spinlock, flags);
- sta_node = mwifiex_get_sta_entry(priv, params->mac);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->sta_list_spinlock, flags);
- if (sta_node) {
- if (mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_UAP_STA_DEAUTH,
- HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
- sta_node->mac_addr, true))
- return -1;
- }
+ if (!params->mac || is_broadcast_ether_addr(params->mac))
+ return 0;
+
+ wiphy_dbg(wiphy, "%s: mac address %pM\n", __func__, params->mac);
+
+ memset(deauth_mac, 0, ETH_ALEN);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->sta_list_spinlock, flags);
+ sta_node = mwifiex_get_sta_entry(priv, params->mac);
+ if (sta_node)
+ ether_addr_copy(deauth_mac, params->mac);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->sta_list_spinlock, flags);
+
+ if (is_valid_ether_addr(deauth_mac)) {
+ if (mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_UAP_STA_DEAUTH,
+ HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, 0,
+ deauth_mac, true))
+ return -1;
}
return 0;