Shay Bar
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mac80211: HE STA disassoc due to QOS NULL not sent
In case of HE AP-STA link, ieee80211_send_nullfunc() will not send the QOS NULL packet to check if AP is still associated. In this case, probe_send_count will be non-zero and ieee80211_sta_work() will later disassociate the AP, even though no packet was ever sent. Fix this by decrementing probe_send_count and not calling ieee80211_send_nullfunc() in case of HE link, so that we still wait for some time for the AP beacon to reappear and don't disconnect right away. Signed-off-by: Shay Bar <shay.bar@celeno.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190703131848.22879-1-shay.bar@celeno.com [clarify commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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