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mac80211: mesh: add missing case to PERR processing

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When the nexthop is unable to resolve its own nexthop it will send back a
PERR with a zero target_sn. According to section 13.10.11.4.3 step b in the
2012 standard that perr should be forwarded and the associated mpath->sn
should be incremented. Neither one of those was happening which is rather
bad because the originator was not told that packets are black holing.

Signed-off-by: Alexis Green <agreen@cococorp.com>
CC: Jesse Jones <jjones@cococorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Alexis Green 2015-06-10 11:02:09 -07:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent 0fabfaafec
commit 703ee73a41
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -736,9 +736,12 @@ static void hwmp_perr_frame_process(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
if (mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_ACTIVE &&
ether_addr_equal(ta, sta->sta.addr) &&
(!(mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_SN_VALID) ||
SN_GT(target_sn, mpath->sn))) {
SN_GT(target_sn, mpath->sn) || target_sn == 0)) {
mpath->flags &= ~MESH_PATH_ACTIVE;
mpath->sn = target_sn;
if (target_sn != 0)
mpath->sn = target_sn;
else
mpath->sn += 1;
spin_unlock_bh(&mpath->state_lock);
if (!ifmsh->mshcfg.dot11MeshForwarding)
goto endperr;