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wifi: mac80211: do not offer a mesh path if forwarding is disabled
authorBenjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:10:42 +0000 (21:10 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 8 May 2025 21:59:12 +0000 (23:59 +0200)
commitcf1b684a06170d253b47d6a5287821de976435bd
tree7833d3b285308cfedb544c4ad08d372c3cb8bb83
parent6b02fd7799fc8e1160c5783459d065ceeb4b7365
wifi: mac80211: do not offer a mesh path if forwarding is disabled

When processing a PREQ the code would always check whether we have a
mesh path locally and reply accordingly. However, when forwarding is
disabled then we should not reply with this information as we will not
forward data packets down that path.

Move the check for dot11MeshForwarding up in the function and skip the
mesh path lookup in that case. In the else block, set forward to false
so that the rest of the function becomes a no-op and the
dot11MeshForwarding check does not need to be duplicated.

This explains an effect observed in the Freifunk community where mesh
forwarding is disabled. In that case a mesh with three STAs and only bad
links in between them, individual STAs would occionally have indirect
mpath entries. This should not have happened.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Rouven Czerwinski <rouven@czerwinskis.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250430191042.3287004-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c