mac80211: fix managed mode BSSID handling

Currently, we will ask the driver to configure right away
when somebody changes the desired BSSID. That's totally
strange because then we will configure the driver without
even knowing whether the BSS exists. Change this to only
configure the BSSID when associated, and configure a zero
BSSID when not associated.

As a side effect, this fixes an issue with the iwlwifi
driver which doesn't implement sta_notify properly and
uses the BSSID instead and gets very confused if the
BSSID is cleared before we disassociate, which results
in the warning Marcel posted [1] and iwlwifi bug 1995 [2].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/32598
[2] http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1995

Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 76df5eabf268..6b7e92eaab47 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -219,18 +219,26 @@ void ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
                                       u32 changed)
 {
         struct ieee80211_local *local = sdata->local;
+        static const u8 zero[ETH_ALEN] = { 0 };
 
         if (!changed)
                 return;
 
-        if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
-                sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->u.mgd.bssid;
-        else if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
+        if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) {
+                /*
+                 * While not associated, claim a BSSID of all-zeroes
+                 * so that drivers don't do any weird things with the
+                 * BSSID at that time.
+                 */
+                if (sdata->vif.bss_conf.assoc)
+                        sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->u.mgd.bssid;
+                else
+                        sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = zero;
+        } else if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC)
                 sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->u.ibss.bssid;
         else if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
                 sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = sdata->dev->dev_addr;
         else if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif)) {
-                static const u8 zero[ETH_ALEN] = { 0 };
                 sdata->vif.bss_conf.bssid = zero;
         } else {
                 WARN_ON(1);