[PATCH] Remove inactivity timeout for wired interfaces

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Dec 4 12:25:23 PST 2016


On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 06:02:16PM -0400, Sam Tannous wrote:
> We should unconditionally remove inactivity timers for wired network cases.
> This patch checks for this after a new station association:
> 
>    hapd->iface->drv_flags & WPA_DRIVER_FLAGS_WIRED
> 
> and then cancels the timeout and does not register a new one.
> 
> It prints out a debug message "cancel wired" like this:
> 
> 1476740180.276286: IEEE 802.1X: 00:02:00:00:00:07 CTRL_DIR entering
> state FORCE_BOTH
> 1476740180.276295: hostapd_new_assoc_sta: cancel wired ap_handle_timer
> timeout for 00:02:00:00:00:07 (120 seconds - ap_max_inactivity)
> 
> This was tested on a debian jessie amd64 system with a configured 120 second
> inactivity timer and the session did not timeout.

Thanks, applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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