From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: fix station authorization
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:09:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqlnr33z.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761t7sibr.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (Kalle Valo's message of "Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:55:52 +0300")
Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> writes:
> 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.
Actually I'll take this back. After this patch even ping doesn't work
with D-Link DIR-865L as AP using 10.1.389 firmware. So I have to drop
this patch.
--
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 19:09 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
2013-10-08 19:09 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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