mac80211: remove bogus code

It's not right to do something here when returning an
error, and hostapd should never have relied on it as
it only fixes up a small part of the problem anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
index 5608f6c68413..a0c7eb18a76d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
@@ -738,13 +738,6 @@ static int ieee80211_add_station(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
 
         err = sta_info_insert(sta);
         if (err) {
-                /* STA has been freed */
-                if (err == -EEXIST && layer2_update) {
-                        /* Need to update layer 2 devices on reassociation */
-                        sta = sta_info_get(local, mac);
-                        if (sta)
-                                ieee80211_send_layer2_update(sta);
-                }
                 rcu_read_unlock();
                 return err;
         }