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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>,
	Vasanth Thiagarajan <Vasanth.Thiagarajan@atheros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>,
	Amod Bodas <Amod.Bodas@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix rate_control_send_low warnings for delbas
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:24:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285781043.3756.28.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikUAchrjeMraauLaUggtq7bYZoki=kz2o8XQ2yh@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 10:16 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > 2. NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE to newly authenticated AP from user space
> >
> >        - Clean up any existing BA session with an AP, if any.
> >        Here the assumption is, ieee80211_work_work() has already
> >        configured the device back to it's operating channel (the
> >        old one) after the authentication is complete with the new
> >        AP. This should have happened part of 1.
> >        - Start the association process with the new AP.
> 
> No see, I believe we actually get the association response and *then*
> we teardown the BA agreements. Let me review this some more today.

No, Vasanth's right, but there's a race:

 * we go off-channel
 * we send auth
 * we get auth
 * we notify wpa_s
 * wpa_s asks for assoc         | these aren't ordered
 * we disassoc                  | quite right but it's
 * we return from off-channel   | hard to avoid ...
 * we assoc to new AP

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-29 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28 22:29 [PATCH] mac80211: fix rate_control_send_low warnings for delbas Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-28 23:02 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-09-28 23:58   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-29  5:20     ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-29  7:24       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-29  8:56         ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2010-09-29 17:16           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-29 17:24             ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-09-29  8:18 ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-29 17:10   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-29 17:25     ` Johannes Berg
2010-09-30 17:53       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-01 20:07         ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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