Patch "mwifiex: fix failed to reconnect after interface disabled/enabled" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mwifiex: fix failed to reconnect after interface disabled/enabled

to the 4.8-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-failed-to-reconnect-after-interface-disabled-enabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:21:06 +0530
Subject: mwifiex: fix failed to reconnect after interface disabled/enabled

From: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>

commit c8ccf3ade7851054f82bf88f5fcd393a394038a3 upstream.

Recent patch "mwifiex: fix NULL pointer" skips extended scan event handling when suspend is in progress. It created a problem for scan after interface disabled/enabled case.

This patch solves the problem by checking netif_running() status.

---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_event.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -708,7 +708,11 @@ int mwifiex_process_sta_event(struct mwi
 
 	case EVENT_EXT_SCAN_REPORT:
 		mwifiex_dbg(adapter, EVENT, "event: EXT_SCAN Report\n");
-		if (adapter->ext_scan && !priv->scan_aborting)
+		/* We intend to skip this event during suspend, but handle
+		 * it in interface disabled case
+		 */
+		if (adapter->ext_scan && (!priv->scan_aborting ||
+					  !netif_running(priv->netdev)))
 			ret = mwifiex_handle_event_ext_scan_report(priv,
 						adapter->event_skb->data);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/mwifiex-fix-failed-to-reconnect-after-interface-disabled-enabled.patch queue-4.8/mwifiex-correct-aid-value-during-tdls-setup.patch