[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "mwifiex: fix corner case association failure" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 11 17:25:56 UTC 2016


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

    mwifiex: fix corner case association failure

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 860982eea59d69b1c380c4c26bfd762bb2bf4406 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar at marvell.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:16:17 -0800
Subject: mwifiex: fix corner case association failure

commit a6139b6271f9f95377fe3486aed6120c9142779b upstream.

This patch corrects the error case in association path by returning
-1. Earlier "media_connected" used to remain on in this error case
causing failure for further association attempts.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar at marvell.com>
Fixes: b887664d882ee4 ('mwifiex: channel switch handling for station')
Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - file rename: drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c ->
    drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
  - adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index 536c14aa71f3..c73470569e6d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
 			dev_err(adapter->dev,
 				"Attempt to reconnect on csa closed chan(%d)\n",
 				bss_desc->channel);
+			ret = -1;
 			goto done;
 		}





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