提交 b8e69d51 编写于 作者: M Matti Gottlieb 提交者: Johannes Berg

mac80211: force off channel transmission for public action frames

Currently while associated to an AP and sending a (public) action
frame to a different AP on the same channel, the action frame will
be sent like a regular tx frame without going off channel.

When power save is enabled this can cause problems, since the device
can go into power save and miss the response to the action frame
that is sent by the other AP.

Force off-channel transmission to avoid this issue in case
- HW offchannel is used,
- the user didn't forbid transmitting frames off channel
- the frame is not sent to the AP that we are associated with
  (if it is we assume the response would be bufferable)
Signed-off-by: NMatti Gottlieb <matti.gottlieb@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
[reword commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
上级 b497de63
......@@ -3343,8 +3343,14 @@ static int ieee80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT:
if (!sdata->u.mgd.associated)
sdata_lock(sdata);
if (!sdata->u.mgd.associated ||
(params->offchan && params->wait &&
local->ops->remain_on_channel &&
memcmp(sdata->u.mgd.associated->bssid,
mgmt->bssid, ETH_ALEN)))
need_offchan = true;
sdata_unlock(sdata);
break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE:
need_offchan = true;
......
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