mac80211: ibss should not purge clients it is not responsible for

The IBSS merge code calls ieee80211_sta_expire() with a relatively
short expire timeout that purges other clients prematurely. The
expire function has to check that only the clients belonging to
the vif in question are purged.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 3d01abb2b813..f0d3b483dabd 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -946,6 +946,9 @@ void ieee80211_sta_expire(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 
         mutex_lock(&local->sta_mtx);
         list_for_each_entry_safe(sta, tmp, &local->sta_list, list)
+                if (sdata != sta->sdata)
+                        continue;
+
                 if (time_after(jiffies, sta->last_rx + exp_time)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_IBSS_DEBUG
                         printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: expiring inactive STA %pM\n",