mac80211: Remove bss information of the current AP when it goes out of range
authorVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 04:39:49 +0000 (10:09 +0530)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:03:48 +0000 (15:03 -0500)
There is no point having the bss information of currently associated AP
when the AP is detected to be out of range.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/mlme.c

index 73808780f538663b6db38fc8b4b81f3c971928e3..57967d32e5fd51c2cf4cfd2fc50d7f6eab8d9023 100644 (file)
@@ -1042,6 +1042,7 @@ static void ieee80211_associated(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
        struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
        struct sta_info *sta;
        int disassoc;
+       bool remove_bss = false;
 
        /* TODO: start monitoring current AP signal quality and number of
         * missed beacons. Scan other channels every now and then and search
@@ -1067,6 +1068,7 @@ static void ieee80211_associated(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
                                       "range\n",
                                       sdata->dev->name, ifsta->bssid);
                                disassoc = 1;
+                               remove_bss = true;
                        } else
                                ieee80211_send_probe_req(sdata, ifsta->bssid,
                                                         ifsta->ssid,
@@ -1086,12 +1088,24 @@ static void ieee80211_associated(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
-       if (disassoc)
+       if (disassoc) {
                ieee80211_set_disassoc(sdata, ifsta, true, true,
                                        WLAN_REASON_PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID);
-       else
+               if (remove_bss) {
+                       struct ieee80211_bss *bss;
+
+                       bss = ieee80211_rx_bss_get(local, ifsta->bssid,
+                                       local->hw.conf.channel->center_freq,
+                                       ifsta->ssid, ifsta->ssid_len);
+                       if (bss) {
+                               atomic_dec(&bss->users);
+                               ieee80211_rx_bss_put(local, bss);
+                       }
+               }
+       } else {
                mod_timer(&ifsta->timer, jiffies +
                                      IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL);
+       }
 }