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-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h2
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mlme.c15
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/rx.c3
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 564167fbb9aa..055bb776408c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -1083,6 +1083,8 @@ void ieee80211_dynamic_ps_timer(unsigned long data);
void ieee80211_send_nullfunc(struct ieee80211_local *local,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
int powersave);
+void ieee80211_sta_rx_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
+ struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr);
void ieee80211_wake_queues_by_reason(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
enum queue_stop_reason reason);
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index c05be09b9c6f..209abb073dfb 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -909,6 +909,21 @@ static void ieee80211_associate(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
mod_timer(&ifmgd->timer, jiffies + IEEE80211_ASSOC_TIMEOUT);
}
+void ieee80211_sta_rx_notify(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
+ struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr)
+{
+ /*
+ * We can postpone the mgd.timer whenever receiving unicast frames
+ * from AP because we know that the connection is working both ways
+ * at that time. But multicast frames (and hence also beacons) must
+ * be ignored here, because we need to trigger the timer during
+ * data idle periods for sending the periodical probe request to
+ * the AP.
+ */
+ if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))
+ mod_timer(&sdata->u.mgd.timer,
+ jiffies + IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL);
+}
static void ieee80211_associated(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
{
diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 47d395a51923..dbfb28465354 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -856,6 +856,9 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_sta_process(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
if (!(rx->flags & IEEE80211_RX_RA_MATCH))
return RX_CONTINUE;
+ if (rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)
+ ieee80211_sta_rx_notify(rx->sdata, hdr);
+
sta->rx_fragments++;
sta->rx_bytes += rx->skb->len;
sta->last_signal = rx->status->signal;