Re: [PATCH] mac80211: inform userspace of probe/auth/assoc timeout

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 09:01 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
> 
> > I noticed that when for some reason [1] the probe or auth times
> > out, wpa_supplicant doesn't realise this and only tries the next
> > AP when it runs into its own timeout, which is ten seconds, and
> > that's quite long. Fix this by making mac80211 notify userspace
> > that it didn't associate.
> 
> Earlier this week I received an internal bug report about this.
> Excellent timing for providing a fix. Thank you, Johannes :)

Heh :)

> > Might be worth backporting to stable?
> 
> I have to backport the patch anyway so I can provide the patch. But I
> don't think this being that important bug to be fixed in stable
> series. We have had this bug in mac80211 always, right?

I'm not entirely sure, I haven't dug through, it might have been
introduced only with one of the refactorings this code has seen.

johannes

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