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Re: wpa_supplicant/key deletion with all-zeroes mac (was: security question)

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> > > wpa_supplicant will 
> > > receives this event then call mac80211 to remove any old security key, 
> > > the problem it will pass 00:00:00:00:00:00 as station address. 
> 
> This sounds broken. wpa_supplicant should remove the key for the
> previous BSSID.


> > Interesting. I'd think this is a wpa_supplicant bug, Jouni, how is the
> > security wext stuff supposed to work here?
> 
> Agreed, this sounds like a bug in wpa_supplicant. Unicast keys should be
> removed with their correct address. I think this used to work, but maybe
> some of the changes in BSSID processing in disassociation cases caused
> the old BSSID to be forgotten.

Can you look into it then please?

Thanks,
johannes

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