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nl/mac80211: allow zero plink timeout to disable STA expiration

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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 <masashi.honma@gmail.com>
[reword/rewrap commit log]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Masashi Honma
2015-02-24 22:42:16 +09:00
committed by Johannes Berg
parent cd37a90b2a
commit 31f909a2c0
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@@ -3092,7 +3092,8 @@ enum nl80211_mesh_power_mode {
*
* @NL80211_MESHCONF_PLINK_TIMEOUT: If no tx activity is seen from a STA we've
* established peering with for longer than this time (in seconds), then
* remove it from the STA's list of peers. Default is 30 minutes.
* remove it from the STA's list of peers. You may set this to 0 to disable
* the removal of the STA. Default is 30 minutes.
*
* @__NL80211_MESHCONF_ATTR_AFTER_LAST: internal use
*/