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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix races between siwessid and siwencode

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On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:40 +0900, Joonwoo Park wrote:
> resolve: http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1522
> 
> The function ieee80211_ioctl_siwencode shouldn't be called if
> authentication process is not completed.
> This patch makes the ieee80211_ioctl_siwessid to wait for authentication
> is completed.

This looks wrong. You could restart association when a key is set but
really the race is by design in WEXT so the only way to fix it is to set
the key first.

johannes

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