On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 14:07 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Amitkumar Karwar <akar...@marvell.com> > > commit d7b9c5204e9c6810a20d509ee47bc70419096e59 upstream. > > Currently "adapter->config_bands" is updated during infra > association only if channel is provided by user in "iw connect" > command. config_bands is used while preparing association > request to calculate supported rates by intersecting our rates > with the rates advertised by AP. > > There is corner case in which we include zero rates in > supported rates TLV based on previous IBSS network history, > which leads to association failure. > > This patch fixes the problem by correctly updating config_bands. > > Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akar...@marvell.com> > Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bz...@marvell.com> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> [...]
Is this fix needed for earlier kernel versions (3.0, 3.2, 3.4)? If so,
could you provide backports?
Ben.
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