>
> The 2016 version of the spec is more generic about when the AP should
> update the power management state of the peer:
> the AP shall update the state based on any management or data frames. This
> means that even non-bufferable management frames should be looked at to
> update to maintain the power management state of the peer.
>
> This can avoid problematic cases for example if a station disappears while
> being asleep and then re-appears. The AP would remember it as in power
> save, but the Authentication frame couldn't be used to set the peer as
> awake again.
> Note that this issues wasn't really critical since at some point (after the
> association) we would have removed the station and created another one
> with all the states cleared.
>
> type=feature
> ticket=none
>
> Change-Id: Iae1fbbd502d64f0c31db3e0f2d81224b29acb5af
Looks like I forgot to remove a few things here :)
And to put this as an RFC..
> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumb...@intel.com>
> ---
> net/mac80211/rx.c | 17 +++++------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c index
> fdf616811865..89db6b11af8a 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
> @@ -1749,23 +1749,16 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_sta_process(struct
> ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
>
> /*
> * Change STA power saving mode only at the end of a frame
> - * exchange sequence.
> + * exchange sequence, and only for a data or management
> + * frame as specified in ieee80211-2016 11.2.3.2
> */
> if (!ieee80211_hw_check(&sta->local->hw, AP_LINK_PS) &&
> !ieee80211_has_morefrags(hdr->frame_control) &&
> - !ieee80211_is_back_req(hdr->frame_control) &&
> + (ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) ||
> + ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control)) &&
> !(status->rx_flags & IEEE80211_RX_DEFERRED_RELEASE) &&
> (rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP ||
> - rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN) &&
> - /*
> - * PM bit is only checked in frames where it isn't reserved,
> - * in AP mode it's reserved in non-bufferable management frames
> - * (cf. IEEE 802.11-2012 8.2.4.1.7 Power Management field)
> - * BAR frames should be ignored as specified in
> - * IEEE 802.11-2012 10.2.1.2.
> - */
> - (!ieee80211_is_mgmt(hdr->frame_control) ||
> - ieee80211_is_bufferable_mmpdu(hdr->frame_control))) {
> + rx->sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN)) {
> if (test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_PS_STA)) {
> if (!ieee80211_has_pm(hdr->frame_control))
> sta_ps_end(sta);
> --
> 2.9.3
