From d82547106ff9dee43e6ee4f4b3d70b5314ae266f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Jones Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:13:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: mesh: don't invalidate SN on discovery failure The 2012 spec mentions that path SNs can be invalid when created (see section 13.10.8.4 table 13-9) but AFAICT never talks about invalidating SNs. Which makes sense: if we have figured out the path to a target at a certain SN then we want to remember that fact. Failing to do so can lead to routing loops because if we don't have a valid SN then we have no way of knowing whether an incoming path message leads to or away from the target. However currently when discovery fails we zero out mpath->flags which clears MESH_PATH_SN_VALID. This patch fixes that so that only the discovery relevant flags are cleared. Signed-off-by: Alexis Green Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c index d31d48f403f5..5ed38c5a998f 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c @@ -1179,7 +1179,9 @@ void mesh_path_timer(unsigned long data) spin_unlock_bh(&mpath->state_lock); mesh_queue_preq(mpath, 0); } else { - mpath->flags = 0; + mpath->flags &= ~(MESH_PATH_RESOLVING | + MESH_PATH_RESOLVED | + MESH_PATH_REQ_QUEUED); mpath->exp_time = jiffies; spin_unlock_bh(&mpath->state_lock); if (!mpath->is_gate && mesh_gate_num(sdata) > 0) {