Re: [PATCH] mac80211: auth retries if AP sends temporary deauth

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 09:49:15AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 00:33 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:
> 
> > If a STA gets sent a DEAUTH from an AP it is actively trying to
> > authenticate to, mac80211 currently shoots itself in the foot by
> > letting  ieee80211_sta_rx_mgmt() clean up state for the connection
> > (removing an entry from authtry_bsses[] in wireless/mlme.c),
> > but the retry loop contiinues, leading to a kernel warning but no
> > connection.
> > 
> > An AP is allowed by the spec to return DEAUTH as a result of a
> > temporary failure, one of which is "you are already authenticated
> > -- what are you talking about?"
> 
> Do you know the reason code for that? I think the check here should be
> more fine-grained.

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John
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