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authorAmitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>2012-02-01 20:41:43 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-02-03 14:17:12 -0500
commitb7097eb75fa11c302dcdec83f1dbfa874e0af0d1 (patch)
tree81087145879edb7e798c4e61ca33d4f293e9f0bc /drivers/net
parentath9k: use WARN_ON_ONCE in ath_rc_get_highest_rix (diff)
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mwifiex: handle association failure case correctly
Currently even if association is failed "iw link" shows some information about connected BSS and "Tx timeout" error is seen in dmesg log. This patch fixes below issues in the code to handle assoc failure case correctly. 1) "status" variable in mwifiex_wait_queue_complete() is not correctly updated. Hence driver doesn't inform cfg80211 stack about association failure. 2) During association network queues are stopped but carrier is not cleared, which gives Tx timeout error in failure case Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index 470ca75ec250..b0fbf5d4fea0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int mwifiex_copy_mcast_addr(struct mwifiex_multicast_list *mlist,
int mwifiex_wait_queue_complete(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
{
bool cancel_flag = false;
- int status = adapter->cmd_wait_q.status;
+ int status;
struct cmd_ctrl_node *cmd_queued;
if (!adapter->cmd_queued)
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ int mwifiex_wait_queue_complete(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
mwifiex_cancel_pending_ioctl(adapter);
dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "cmd cancel\n");
}
+
+ status = adapter->cmd_wait_q.status;
adapter->cmd_wait_q.status = 0;
return status;
@@ -240,6 +242,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
if (!netif_queue_stopped(priv->netdev))
mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
+ if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
+ netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev);
/* Clear any past association response stored for
* application retrieval */
@@ -271,6 +275,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
if (!netif_queue_stopped(priv->netdev))
mwifiex_stop_net_dev_queue(priv->netdev, adapter);
+ if (netif_carrier_ok(priv->netdev))
+ netif_carrier_off(priv->netdev);
if (!ret) {
dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "info: network found in scan"