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    mac80211: Fix Unreachable Mesh Station Problem when joining to another MBSS · b8bacc18
    Chun-Yeow Yeoh authored
    
    
    Mesh station that joins an MBSS is reachable using mesh portal with 6
    address frame by mesh stations from another MBSS if these two different
    MBSSes are bridged. However, if the mesh station later moves into the
    same MBSS of those mesh stations, it is unreachable by mesh stations
    in the MBSS due to the mpp_paths table is not deleted. A quick fix
    is to perform mesh_path_lookup, if it is available for the target
    destination, mpp_path_lookup is not performed. When the mesh station
    moves back to its original MBSS, the mesh_paths will be deleted once
    expired. So, it will be reachable using mpp_path_lookup again.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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