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mac80211: HE STA disassoc due to QOS NULL not sent

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In case of HE AP-STA link, ieee80211_send_nullfunc() will not
send the QOS NULL packet to check if AP is still associated.

In this case, probe_send_count will be non-zero and
ieee80211_sta_work() will later disassociate the AP, even
though no packet was ever sent.

Fix this by decrementing probe_send_count and not calling
ieee80211_send_nullfunc() in case of HE link, so that we
still wait for some time for the AP beacon to reappear and
don't disconnect right away.

Signed-off-by: Shay Bar <shay.bar@celeno.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190703131848.22879-1-shay.bar@celeno.com
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Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Shay Bar 2019-07-03 16:18:48 +03:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 1ced169cc1
commit f39b07fdfb
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@ -2512,7 +2512,10 @@ static void ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap_send(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
if (ieee80211_hw_check(&sdata->local->hw, REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS)) {
ifmgd->nullfunc_failed = false;
ieee80211_send_nullfunc(sdata->local, sdata, false);
if (!(ifmgd->flags & IEEE80211_STA_DISABLE_HE))
ifmgd->probe_send_count--;
else
ieee80211_send_nullfunc(sdata->local, sdata, false);
} else {
int ssid_len;