From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: auth retries if AP sends temporary deauth
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:35:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100629173521.GD5296@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277624955.3684.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
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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Thanks,
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 7:33 [PATCH] mac80211: auth retries if AP sends temporary deauth Paul Stewart
2010-06-27 7:49 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-29 17:35 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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