From 5d618cb81aeea19879975cd1f9a1e707694dfd7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:43:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: Fixed bug in mesh portal paths
Paths to mesh portals were being timed out immediately after each use in
intermediate forwarding nodes. mppath->exp_time is set to the expiration time
so assigning it to jiffies was marking the path as expired.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
net/mac80211/rx.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index f237df408378..9f2807aeaf52 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1712,7 +1712,6 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
mpp_path_add(proxied_addr, mpp_addr, sdata);
} else {
spin_lock_bh(&mppath->state_lock);
- mppath->exp_time = jiffies;
if (compare_ether_addr(mppath->mpp, mpp_addr) != 0)
memcpy(mppath->mpp, mpp_addr, ETH_ALEN);
spin_unlock_bh(&mppath->state_lock);
--
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