Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: sme: deauthenticate on assoc failure

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:07 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 03:08:53PM +0900, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > When the in-kernel SME gets an association failure from
> > the AP we don't deauthenticate, and thus get into a very
> > confused state which will lead to warnings later on. Fix
> > this by actually deauthenticating when the AP indicates
> > an association failure.
> 
> While this may be a reasonable change to resolve an issue now, this may
> not be the best long term solution. There are some association failure
> cases which should really be handled by trying association again instead
> of deauthenticating. The main example would be the association comeback
> time use in IEEE 802.11w. In general, association failure should not
> result in deauthentication in every case.

I'm pretty sure the issue should be fixed with the other two patches
Luis and I cooked up at KS.

johannes

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