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Message-Id: <20101208005727.137783951@clark.site>
Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:57:15 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@...eros.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: [058/289] mac80211: Fix ibss station got expired immediately

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@...eros.com>

commit c8716d9dc13c7f6ee92f2bfc6cc3b723b417bff8 upstream.

Station addition in ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt is not updating
sta->last_rx which is causing station expiry in ieee80211_ibss_work
path. So sta addition and deletion happens repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@...eros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 net/mac80211/ibss.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ struct sta_info *ieee80211_ibss_add_sta(
 	if (!sta)
 		return NULL;
 
+	sta->last_rx = jiffies;
 	set_sta_flags(sta, WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED);
 
 	/* make sure mandatory rates are always added */


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