Patch "mwifiex: fix corner case association failure" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mwifiex: fix corner case association failure
to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mwifiex-fix-corner-case-association-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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a6139b6271f9f95377fe3486aed6120c9142779bMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 05:16:17 -0800
Subject: mwifiex: fix corner case association failure
From: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
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.
--- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c +1 -0
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_primwifiex_dbg (adapter,ERROR ,"Attempt to reconnect on csa closed chan(%d)\n" , bss_desc->channel); + ret =-1 ; goto done; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.5/mwifiex-fix-corner-case-association-failure.patch