mac80211: mesh gate implementation

In this implementation, a mesh gate is a root node with a certain bit
set in its RANN flags. The mpath to this root node is marked as a path
to a gate, and added to our list of known gates for this if_mesh. Once a
path discovery process fails, we forward the unresolved frames to a
known gate. Thanks to Luis Rodriguez for refactoring and bug fix help.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index ecdde6ce4df0..e120fefb4e40 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ void ieee80211_mesh_quiesce(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 {
         struct ieee80211_if_mesh *ifmsh = &sdata->u.mesh;
 
-        /* use atomic bitops in case both timers fire at the same time */
+        /* use atomic bitops in case all timers fire at the same time */
 
         if (del_timer_sync(&ifmsh->housekeeping_timer))
                 set_bit(TMR_RUNNING_HK, &ifmsh->timers_running);
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ void ieee80211_mesh_init_sdata(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
         ifmsh->accepting_plinks = true;
         ifmsh->preq_id = 0;
         ifmsh->sn = 0;
+        ifmsh->num_gates = 0;
         atomic_set(&ifmsh->mpaths, 0);
         mesh_rmc_init(sdata);
         ifmsh->last_preq = jiffies;