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 --- include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h index 68b294e83944..2dcf9bba317c 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nl80211.h @@ -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 */ -- cgit v1.2.1