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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: allow transmitting deauth with tainted key

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On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 14:15 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When we had a connection for WoWLAN and after resume it
> needed to be disconnected, the previous commit enabled
> sending a deauth frame to the AP. This frame would not
> go through on MFP-enabled networks as the key for it is
> marked tainted before the frame is transmitted.
> 
> Allow a tainted key to be used for deauth frames. Worst
> case, we'll use a wrong key because the PTK was rekeyed
> while suspended, but more likely the PTK is still fine
> and the taint flag really only applies to the GTK(s).

Applied both.

johannes

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