staging: rtl8723au: Stop carrying half the beacon frame header in the stored IE array

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This gets rid of the odd carrying of half the beacon frame in the IE
array stored for the network. Instead we rely on the relevant fields
(timestamp, beacon_interval, and capability) stored in struct
wlan_bssid_ex.

Carrying only half the ieee80211_mgmt header led to a number of bugs
and simply obfuscated the code.

I have tried catching all instances relying on these three elements in
the IEs array, but missed cases may still need to be tracked down.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Jes Sorensen 2014-06-24 15:03:29 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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commit 68e6c79609

7 changed files with 58 additions and 141 deletions

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ieee80211.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_wlan_util.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_cmd.c

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drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h

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