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Commit 4b08d1b6 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg
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mac80211: IBSS: send deauth when expiring inactive STAs



When we expire an inactive station, try to send it a deauth. This
helps if it's actually still around, and just has issues with
beacon distribution (or we do), and it will not also remove us.
Then, if we have shared state, this may not be reset properly,
causing problems; for example, we saw a case where aggregation
sessions weren't removed properly (due to the TX start being
offloaded to firmware and it relying on deauth for stop), causing
a lot of traffic to get lost due to the SN reset after remove/add
of the peer.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190830112451.21655-9-luca@coelho.fi


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 753a9a72
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