linux/net
Vivek Natarajan f3e85b9ede mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save.
There is a race on sending a data frame before the tx completion
of nullfunc frame for enabling power save. As the data quickly
follows the nullfunc frame, the AP thinks that the station is out
of power save and continues to send the frames. Whereas in the
station, the nullfunc ack will be processed after the tx completion
of data frame and mac80211 goes to powersave. Thus the power
save state mismatch between the station and the AP causes some
data loss and some applications fail because of that. This patch
fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-23 16:25:29 -05:00
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9p net/9p: Use proper data types 2011-01-11 09:58:07 -06:00
802 net/802: add __rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:44 -07:00
8021q 8021q: vlan device is lockless do not transfer real_num_{tx|rx}_queues 2010-11-28 10:47:19 -08:00
appletalk
atm Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2011-01-07 16:58:04 -08:00
ax25 net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder 2011-01-12 00:34:49 -08:00
batman-adv batman-adv: Return hna count on local buffer fill 2010-12-20 10:32:03 -08:00
bluetooth Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2011-02-18 17:03:41 -05:00
bridge net: bridge: check the length of skb after nf_bridge_maybe_copy_header() 2011-01-06 11:33:05 -08:00
caif CAIF: Fix IPv6 support in receive path for GPRS/3G 2011-01-10 16:12:00 -08:00
can Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-01-04 11:57:25 -08:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2011-01-13 10:25:24 -08:00
core Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-01-14 13:25:30 -08:00
dcb dcb: use after free in dcb_flushapp() 2011-01-06 11:16:54 -08:00
dccp Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
decnet Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
dns_resolver Net: dns_resolver: Makefile: Remove deprecated kbuild goal definitions 2010-11-22 08:16:10 -08:00
dsa net/dsa: don't use flush_scheduled_work() 2010-12-24 15:59:06 +01:00
econet Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
ethernet eth: fix new kernel-doc warning 2011-01-12 19:00:40 -08:00
ieee802154 net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() 2010-12-08 10:07:24 -08:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-01-14 13:25:30 -08:00
ipx BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL. 2010-10-21 15:44:13 +02:00
irda Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-26 22:37:05 -08:00
iucv [S390] irq: have detailed statistics for interrupt types 2011-01-05 12:47:25 +01:00
key net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
l2tp Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
lapb Net: lapb: Makefile: Remove deprecated kbuild goal definitions 2010-11-22 08:16:14 -08:00
llc net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() 2010-12-08 10:07:24 -08:00
mac80211 mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save. 2011-02-23 16:25:29 -05:00
netfilter netfilter: ctnetlink: fix loop in ctnetlink_get_conntrack() 2011-01-13 17:03:39 +01:00
netlabel net: kill unused macros 2010-12-19 21:59:35 -08:00
netlink netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite 2011-01-09 16:25:03 -08:00
netrom
packet net: Use skb_checksum_start_offset() 2010-12-16 14:43:14 -08:00
phonet phonet: some signedness bugs 2011-01-10 13:33:17 -08:00
rds Net: rds: Makefile: Remove deprecated items 2010-11-22 08:16:15 -08:00
rfkill rfkill: remove dead code 2010-11-15 13:24:06 -05:00
rose Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-09-27 01:03:03 -07:00
rxrpc rxrpc: rxrpc_workqueue isn't used during memory reclaim 2011-01-14 09:25:11 -08:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-01-14 13:25:30 -08:00
sctp Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-17 12:27:22 -08:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2011-01-14 13:17:26 -08:00
tipc tipc: update log.h re-include protection to reflect new name 2011-01-01 14:56:18 -08:00
unix af_unix: Avoid socket->sk NULL OOPS in stream connect security hooks. 2011-01-05 15:38:53 -08:00
wanrouter Net: wanrouter: Makefile: Remove deprecated kbuild goal definitions 2010-11-22 08:16:16 -08:00
wimax
wireless cfg80211: Fix power save state after interface type change 2011-02-03 16:44:42 -05:00
x25 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
xfrm xfrm: check trunc_len in XFRMA_ALG_AUTH_TRUNC 2011-01-11 14:03:09 -08:00
compat.c net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX. 2010-10-28 11:47:52 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Makefile net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol 2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00
nonet.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
socket.c pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo() 2011-01-12 20:03:43 -05:00
sysctl_net.c
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