Re: [PATCH 12/15] mka: resources leaked when duplicated SCI detected

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On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 03:11:00PM -0500, msiedzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> If a live peer ever changes its Member Identifier (MI), the KaY
> correctly detects a "duplicated SCI" but then proceeds to delete the
> peer without deleting the peer's resources (i.e., RxSC, RxSAs, TxSAs).
> 
> Note that a remote peer's MI will change if and when a
> ieee8021XPaePortInitialize is executed on the remote port.
> 
> The solution here is to ignore all MKPDUs containing the new MI until
> after the peer (that corresponds to the old MI) expires and cleans up
> its resources.  After the old peer is removed reception of the next
> MKPDU containing the new MI will result in the creation of a new peer
> with the new MI.

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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