mac80211: IBSS: send deauth when expiring inactive STAs
When we expire an inactive station, try to send it a deauth. This
helps if it's actually still around, and just has issues with
beacon distribution (or we do), and it will not also remove us.
Then, if we have shared state, this may not be reset properly,
causing problems; for example, we saw a case where aggregation
sessions weren't removed properly (due to the TX start being
offloaded to firmware and it relying on deauth for stop), causing
a lot of traffic to get lost due to the SN reset after remove/add
of the peer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190830112451.21655-9-luca@coelho.fi
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
index f00dca0..0a6ff01 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c
@@ -1252,6 +1252,7 @@ void ieee80211_ibss_rx_no_sta(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
static void ieee80211_ibss_sta_expire(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
{
+ struct ieee80211_if_ibss *ifibss = &sdata->u.ibss;
struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
struct sta_info *sta, *tmp;
unsigned long exp_time = IEEE80211_IBSS_INACTIVITY_LIMIT;
@@ -1268,10 +1269,17 @@ static void ieee80211_ibss_sta_expire(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
if (time_is_before_jiffies(last_active + exp_time) ||
(time_is_before_jiffies(last_active + exp_rsn) &&
sta->sta_state != IEEE80211_STA_AUTHORIZED)) {
+ u8 frame_buf[IEEE80211_DEAUTH_FRAME_LEN];
+
sta_dbg(sta->sdata, "expiring inactive %sSTA %pM\n",
sta->sta_state != IEEE80211_STA_AUTHORIZED ?
"not authorized " : "", sta->sta.addr);
+ ieee80211_send_deauth_disassoc(sdata, sta->sta.addr,
+ ifibss->bssid,
+ IEEE80211_STYPE_DEAUTH,
+ WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING,
+ true, frame_buf);
WARN_ON(__sta_info_destroy(sta));
}
}
