From 31f909a2c0abfc1a1a76b2981d28ac85d33210e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masashi Honma Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:42:16 +0900 Subject: nl/mac80211: allow zero plink timeout to disable STA expiration Both wpa_supplicant and mac80211 have and inactivity timer. By default wpa_supplicant will be timed out in 5 minutes and mac80211's it is 30 minutes. If wpa_supplicant uses a longer timer than mac80211, it will get unexpected disconnection by mac80211. Using 0xffffffff instead as the configured value could solve this w/o changing the code, but due to integer overflow in the expression used this doesn't work. The expression is: (current jiffies) > (frame Rx jiffies + NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT * 250) On 32bit system, the right side would overflow and be a very small value if NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT is sufficiently large, causing unexpectedly early disconnections. Instead allow disabling the inactivity timer to avoid this situation, by passing the (previously invalid and useless) value 0. Signed-off-by: Masashi Honma [reword/rewrap commit log] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/wireless') diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index d78fd8b54515..9c6e23ede5b2 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -5265,7 +5265,7 @@ do { \ FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, dot11MeshAwakeWindowDuration, 0, 65535, mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_AWAKE_WINDOW, nla_get_u16); - FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, plink_timeout, 1, 0xffffffff, + FILL_IN_MESH_PARAM_IF_SET(tb, cfg, plink_timeout, 0, 0xffffffff, mask, NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT, nla_get_u32); if (mask_out) -- cgit v1.2.3