On 01/19/2012 07:36 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:45:29AM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> When deauth is requested while an auth or assoc >> work item is in progress, we currently delete it >> without regard for any state it might need to >> clean up. Fix it by cleaning up for those items. >> >> In the case Pontus found, the problem manifested >> itself as such: >> >> authenticate with 00:23:69:aa:dd:7b (try 1) >> authenticated >> failed to insert Dummy STA entry for the AP (error -17) >> deauthenticating from 00:23:69:aa:dd:7b by local choice (reason=2) >> >> It could also happen differently if the driver >> uses the tx_sync callback. >> >> We can't just call the ->done() method of the work >> items because that will lock up due to the locking >> in cfg80211. This fix isn't very clean, but that >> seems acceptable since I have patches pending to >> remove this code completely. >> >> Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx> >> Tested-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Johannes pointed me on IRC that we should apply this patch, it fix >> problem on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=275216 >> We can also wait until it lend in stable ... > It's not queued for 3.2.2, so we'd be waiting until 3.2.3 probably. > I'll defer to you and John on whether we want to apply it or not but I'd > say sure. If so, let me know which releases (I'm guessing all). > > josh Applying it seems reasonable to me... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
