[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "mac80211: ensure we don't update tx power on a non-running sdata" 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: ensure we don't update tx power on a non-running sdata

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:24:39 +0200
Subject: mac80211: ensure we don't update tx power on a non-running sdata

commit 5ad11b50fda1306b5317124f97f0a7a4c022b022 upstream.

We can't update the Tx power on the device unless it is
running.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101521.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/iface.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 553ac6d..436c423 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ bool __ieee80211_recalc_txpower(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 void ieee80211_recalc_txpower(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 			      bool update_bss)
 {
-	if (__ieee80211_recalc_txpower(sdata) || update_bss)
+	if (__ieee80211_recalc_txpower(sdata) ||
+	    (update_bss && ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata)))
 		ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(sdata, BSS_CHANGED_TXPOWER);
 }

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