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Seth Forshee 9c35d7d236 mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel 
We've got a couple of races when enabling powersave with an AP for
off-channel operation. The first is fairly simple. If we go off-channel
before the nullfunc frame to enable PS is transmitted then it may not be
received by the AP. Add a flush after enabling off-channel PS to prevent
this from happening.

The second race is a bit more subtle. If the driver supports QoS and has
frames queued when the nullfunc frame is queued, those frames may get
transmitted after the nullfunc frame. If PM is not set then the AP is
being told that we've exited PS before we go off-channel and may try to
deliver frames. To prevent this, add a flush after stopping the queues
but before passing the nullfunc frame to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 22:52:21 +01:00
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9p virtio: 9p: correctly pass physical address to userspace for high pages 2012-10-22 18:19:36 +10:30
802
8021q 8021q: fix vlan device to inherit the unicast filtering capability flag 2012-11-30 12:07:27 -05:00
appletalk
atm atm: use scnprintf() instead of sprintf() 2012-12-17 20:50:51 -08:00
ax25
batman-adv batman-adv: use ETH_P_BATMAN 2012-11-30 10:50:22 +01:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Refactor mgmt_pending_foreach 2013-02-01 15:50:18 -02:00
bridge bridge: Correctly encode addresses when dumping mdb entries 2012-12-19 12:50:06 -08:00
caif caif_usb: Make the driver name check more efficient 2012-12-09 00:34:02 -05:00
can Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2012-12-20 14:00:13 -08:00
core Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-12-18 10:55:28 -08:00
dcb net: Allow DCBnl to use other namespaces besides init_net 2012-12-10 14:09:01 -05:00
dccp inet: Fix kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
decnet net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methods 2012-11-18 20:32:44 -05:00
dns_resolver Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2012-12-16 15:40:50 -08:00
dsa dsa: Hide core config options; make drivers select what they need 2012-11-26 17:10:44 -05:00
ethernet
ieee802154 6lowpan: consider checksum bytes in fragmentation threshold 2012-11-30 12:19:24 -05:00
ipv4 inet: Fix kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
ipv6 ipv6: addrconf.c: remove unnecessary "if" 2012-12-19 12:50:06 -08:00
ipx
irda TTY/Serial merge for 3.8-rc1 2012-12-11 14:08:47 -08:00
iucv
key net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-11-10 18:32:51 -05:00
lapb
llc net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
mac80211 mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel 2013-02-11 22:52:21 +01:00
mac802154 mac802154: fix destructon ordering for ieee802154 devices 2012-12-14 13:14:07 -05:00
netfilter Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
netlabel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
netlink netlink: validate addr_len on bind 2012-12-17 20:50:51 -08:00
netrom
nfc NFC: llcp: integer underflow in nfc_llcp_set_remote_gb() 2013-02-08 14:51:31 -05:00
openvswitch openvswitch: Use RCU callback when detaching netdevices. 2012-11-28 14:04:34 -08:00
packet net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
phonet net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methods 2012-11-18 20:32:44 -05:00
rds net: rds: use this_cpu_* per-cpu helper 2012-11-19 18:59:44 -05:00
rfkill Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
rose
rxrpc Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-12-12 18:07:07 -08:00
sctp sctp: jsctp_sf_eat_sack: fix jprobes function signature mismatch 2012-12-15 17:14:39 -08:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2012-12-20 14:04:11 -08:00
tipc tipc: refactor accept() code for improved readability 2012-12-07 17:23:24 -05:00
unix net: Don't export sysctls to unprivileged users 2012-11-18 20:30:55 -05:00
wanrouter
wimax
wireless cfg80211: move TSF into IEs 2013-02-11 18:44:59 +01:00
x25
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next 2012-11-22 15:25:55 -05:00
compat.c
Kconfig
Makefile ipv6: Preserve ipv6 functionality needed by NET 2012-11-18 02:34:00 -05:00
nonet.c
socket.c cgroup: net_cls: Rework update socket logic 2012-10-26 03:40:51 -04:00
sysctl_net.c user_ns: get rid of duplicate code in net_ctl_permissions 2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00