[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "mac80211: fix IBSS join by initializing last_scan_completed" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mac80211: fix IBSS join by initializing last_scan_completed

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:14:46 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix IBSS join by initializing last_scan_completed
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commit c7d37a66e345df2fdf1aa7b2c9a6d3d53846ca5b upstream.

Without this fix, freshly rebooted Linux creates a new IBSS
instead of joining an existing one. Only when jiffies counter
overflows after 5 minutes the IBSS can be successfully joined.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khalasa at piap.pl>
[edit commit message slightly]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/ibss.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index d40e0e1..3727941 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -1676,6 +1676,7 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	sdata->u.ibss.control_port = params->control_port;
 	sdata->u.ibss.userspace_handles_dfs = params->userspace_handles_dfs;
 	sdata->u.ibss.basic_rates = params->basic_rates;
+	sdata->u.ibss.last_scan_completed = jiffies;

 	/* fix basic_rates if channel does not support these rates */
 	rate_flags = ieee80211_chandef_rate_flags(&params->chandef);
--
1.9.1