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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix FT roaming

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On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 14:43 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> During FT roaming, wpa_supplicant attempts to set the
> key before association. This used to be rejected, but
> as a side effect of my commit 66e67e418908442389d3a9e
> ("mac80211: redesign auth/assoc") the key was accepted
> causing hardware crypto to not be used for it as the
> station isn't added to the driver yet.
> 
> It would be possible to accept the key and then add it
> to the driver when the station has been added. However,
> this may run into issues with drivers using the state-
> based station adding if they accept the key only after
> association like it used to be.
> 
> For now, revert to the behaviour from before the auth
> and assoc change.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Cédric Debarge <cedric.debarge@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Cédric Debarge <cedric.debarge@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.

johannes

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