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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: fix station authorization
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:55:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761t7sibr.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380875428-20899-1-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> (Michal Kazior's message of "Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:30:28 +0200")

Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> writes:

> Peer authorization should be delayed until
> mac80211 says given station has transitioned into
> authorized state.
>
> The state is propagated from mac80211 for both
> open and protected networks.
>
> This should prevent data traffic to/from given
> station until authorization completes. Until now
> it was probably possible for unauthorized traffic
> to pass leading to possible security issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-04  8:30 [PATCH] ath10k: fix station authorization Michal Kazior
2013-10-08 18:55 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2013-10-08 19:09   ` Kalle Valo

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