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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: verify deauthentication and return error on failure

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On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 09:28 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When still authenticating the mac80211 code handling a deauthentication
> requests from userspace doesn't verify that the request is valid in any
> way, fix that. Additionally, it never returns an error, even if there's
> no connection or authentication attempt, fix that as well.
> 
> While at it, move the message to not print a message in the error case
> and to distinguish between the two cases.
> 
> Also simplify the code by duplicating the cfg80211 call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>


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