mac80211: remove bogus code

It's not right to do something here when returning an
error, and hostapd should never have relied on it as
it only fixes up a small part of the problem anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 5608f6c68413d2169dfc44d3d081a2c9235c938b..a0c7eb18a76d8e6e6c45dbe6346ff4b0f6f40a1c 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -738,13 +738,6 @@ static int ieee80211_add_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 
        err = sta_info_insert(sta);
        if (err) {
-               /* STA has been freed */
-               if (err == -EEXIST && layer2_update) {
-                       /* Need to update layer 2 devices on reassociation */
-                       sta = sta_info_get(local, mac);
-                       if (sta)
-                               ieee80211_send_layer2_update(sta);
-               }
                rcu_read_unlock();
                return err;
        }