From: Jesse Jones <jjo...@cococorp.com> The 2012 spec mentions that path SNs can be invalid when created (see section 13.10.8.4 table 13-9) but AFAICT never talks about invalidating SNs. Which makes sense: if we have figured out the path to a target at a certain SN then we want to remember that fact. Failing to do so can lead to routing loops because if we don't have a valid SN then we have no way of knowing whether an incoming path message leads to or away from the target.
However currently when discovery fails we zero out mpath->flags which clears MESH_PATH_SN_VALID. This patch fixes that so that only the discovery relevant flags are cleared. Signed-off-by: Alexis Green <agr...@cococorp.com> --- diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c index 085edc1..1d849be --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c @@ -1176,7 +1176,8 @@ void mesh_path_timer(unsigned long data) spin_unlock_bh(&mpath->state_lock); mesh_queue_preq(mpath, 0); } else { - mpath->flags = 0; + mpath->flags &= ~(MESH_PATH_RESOLVING | + MESH_PATH_RESOLVED | MESH_PATH_REQ_QUEUED); mpath->exp_time = jiffies; spin_unlock_bh(&mpath->state_lock); if (!mpath->is_gate && mesh_gate_num(sdata) > 0) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html