mac80211: update adjusting TBTT bit in beacon
This regression was introduced in "mac80211: cache mesh
beacon".
mesh_sync_offset_adjust_tbtt() was assuming that the
beacon would be rebuilt in every single pre-tbtt
interrupt, but now the beacon update happens on the
workqueue, and it must be ready for immediate delivery to
the driver.
Save a pointer to the meshconf IE in the beacon_data (this
works because both the IE pointer and beacon buffer are
protected by the same rcu_{dereference,assign_pointer}())
for quick updates during pre-tbtt. This is faster and a
little prettier than iterating over the elements to find
the meshconf IE every time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
index 89df62b..5a74b24 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@
*pos++ = WLAN_EID_MESH_CONFIG;
*pos++ = meshconf_len;
+ /* save a pointer for quick updates in pre-tbtt */
+ ifmsh->meshconf_offset = pos - skb->data;
+
/* Active path selection protocol ID */
*pos++ = ifmsh->mesh_pp_id;
/* Active path selection metric ID */
@@ -723,6 +726,8 @@
bcn->tail_len = skb->len;
memcpy(bcn->tail, skb->data, bcn->tail_len);
+ bcn->meshconf = (struct ieee80211_meshconf_ie *)
+ (bcn->tail + ifmsh->meshconf_offset);
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
rcu_assign_pointer(ifmsh->beacon, bcn);