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authorThomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>2011-11-24 17:15:25 -0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-11-28 14:44:07 -0500
commit0cfda8519c85eb279166fb55a8553ee66eac9b35 (patch)
tree55f917c9402c0164a76c80b4675ea173562a869f /net/mac80211/tx.c
parentdca7e9430cb3e492437a5ce891b8b3e315c147ca (diff)
mac80211: don't initiate path discovery when forwarding frame with unknown DA
We used to initiate a path discovery when receiving a frame for which there is no forwarding information. To cut down on PREQ spam, just send a (gated) PERR in response. Also separate path discovery logic from nexthop querying. This patch means we no longer queue frames when forwarding, so kill the PERR TX stuff in discard_frame(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/tx.c')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/tx.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 655e3a97f92e..c4cb4a536e27 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ void ieee80211_xmit(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (ieee80211_vif_is_mesh(&sdata->vif) &&
ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) &&
!is_multicast_ether_addr(hdr->addr1))
- if (mesh_nexthop_lookup(skb, sdata)) {
+ if (mesh_nexthop_resolve(skb, sdata)) {
/* skb queued: don't free */
rcu_read_unlock();
return;