On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 10:53 -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I see the same behaviour - but it's the supplicant's doing, it is indeed
> > getting the event that the AP connection failed (timed out):
> >
> > wlan0: Event ASSOC_TIMED_OUT (15) received
>
> Not in my setup.
Well, dunno then. Different kernel versions? This clearly happens for
me.
> >> > This isn't really true like I said above - the kernel can only drop the
> >> > association, if userspace *insists* then it will try again and again.
> >>
> >> But it's not doing this:
> >>
> >> ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(sdata, false);
> >> cfg80211_assoc_timeout(sdata->dev, bss);
> >>
> >> Which is what causes the association to stop for me.
> >>
> >> So where exactly in the code is the association being "dropped"?
> >
> > This does get called in my setup.
>
> Yes, because your setup is receiving beacons.
No ... I tested on hwsim, making it ask for dtim-before-assoc, and
short-circuiting the beacon-TX routing. It can't have been seeing
beacons.
> Check the code:
>
> if ((ifmgd->assoc_data->need_beacon && !ifmgd->have_beacon) ||
> ieee80211_do_assoc(sdata)) {
> struct cfg80211_bss *bss = ifmgd->assoc_data->bss;
>
> ieee80211_destroy_assoc_data(sdata, false);
> cfg80211_assoc_timeout(sdata->dev, bss);
> }
>
> If there's no beacon, cfg80211_assoc_timeout() is not called.
Yes it is.
"need_beacon && !have_beacon:
means - I wanted the beacon but didn't get it at the timeout.
> I'm sure if you don't call ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon() at all you will
> see the same behavior I see.
I'm sure I won't :)
> > Like I said before - trying to work with an AP without beacons at all is
> > really bad, we shouldn't be doing it.
>
> Why not? For all intents and purposes my system is not receiving any
> beacons, and I don't see any problems.
The not receiving part is a bug. I think you're probably receiving
beacons once associated though?
> What would you prefer? That nothing works at all?
Yes, that'd be much safer.
> > We might not properly react to
> > radar events, and other things, for example.
>
> So? I don't know what that means, but it can't be worst than not being
> able to connect to the Internet whatsoever at all.
It can make you break the law.
johannes
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