mac80211: IBSS: send deauth when expiring inactive STAs
When we expire an inactive station, try to send it a deauth. This helps if it's actually still around, and just has issues with beacon distribution (or we do), and it will not also remove us. Then, if we have shared state, this may not be reset properly, causing problems; for example, we saw a case where aggregation sessions weren't removed properly (due to the TX start being offloaded to firmware and it relying on deauth for stop), causing a lot of traffic to get lost due to the SN reset after remove/add of the peer. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190830112451.21655-9-luca@coelho.fiSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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