From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Do not try to associate with an empty SSID
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:15:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244736930.20900.431.camel@rc-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090611151945.GA17284@jm.kir.nu>
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:19 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> It looks like some programs (e.g., NM) are setting an empty SSID with
> SIOCSIWESSID in some cases. This seems to trigger mac80211 to try to
> associate with an invalid configuration (wildcard SSID) which will
> result in failing associations (or odd issues, potentially including
> kernel panic with some drivers) if the AP were to actually accept this
> anyway).
I think this behavior was recently changed in NM. See
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=01a1bafc1d8abee153a8aca0495c77292f4f07e3
This is just fyi as this change is still needed for all the other NM
versions out there.
Reinette
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 10:54 [PATCH] mac80211: Do not try to associate with an empty SSID Jouni Malinen
2009-06-11 11:27 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-11 15:19 ` [PATCH v2] " Jouni Malinen
2009-06-11 15:27 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-11 16:15 ` reinette chatre [this message]
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