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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
Subject: Regression in 3.9 caused by "bridge: respect RFC2863 operational state"
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 21:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518166C5.4080904@openwrt.org> (raw)

Hi,

commit 576eb62598f10c8c7fd75703fe89010cdcfff596
Author: stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 28 18:15:22 2012 +0000

bridge: respect RFC2863 operational state

This commit breaks putting a mac80211 4-address client mode interface in
a bridge and using it with WPA encryption.

wpa_supplicant has to receive EAP frames for authentication from the
bridge interface, since the rx handler hook steals them from the
wireless interface. However, it also keeps the interface operstate to
IF_OPER_DORMANT for as long as the WPA handshake is incomplete, which
causes the bridge code to drop EAP packets.

In the long run, I'd like to sort out this mess by passing EAP frames to
userspace via nl80211 - but since that will require userspace changes,
what do we do about this issue in the mean time?

- Felix

             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-01 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-01 19:02 Felix Fietkau [this message]
2013-05-01 19:49 ` Regression in 3.9 caused by "bridge: respect RFC2863 operational state" Krishna Chaitanya
     [not found]   ` <CAOaVG179Rx_JfV99mbjWhwQTALb5gh+2_WVFWDSbngA0qkzoGw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-01 21:06     ` Felix Fietkau
2013-05-01 22:49       ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-02  0:53         ` Felix Fietkau
     [not found] <CAFuUQkhHsRZMnNYBbVZU0=BcAKMEktzYgPv6oc=CMFd7MFDi6g@mail.gmail.com>
2015-12-04  2:31 ` YanBo
2016-01-19 15:45   ` Shajakhan, Mohammed Shafi (Mohammed Shafi)
2016-01-19 21:10     ` YanBo
2016-01-19 21:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-19 21:55   ` Felix Fietkau

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