On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 12:28 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: > > Ultimately, depending on the nl80211 capabilities, the station > > should > > in fact be added (as unauthenticated) before even sending the > > authentication response frame, and then stepping through the stages > > appropriately. > > While I think it does make sense (I thought of this too, sounds > desirable) I think it wouldn't solve the race problem entirely. The > station might no longer be rejected with Deauth but may end up > confusing AP's internal/offloaded STA powersave state depending on > implementation detail (what do you do when you receive NullFunc from > a > station that you don't know assoc id of or isn't fully initialized as > associated?). We'd send a deauth with "class 3 frame from unassociated STA" reason :) > I.e. station should be transitioned to Assoc state > before sending the Assoc Resp frame. Yeah, I guess that's still true, but it doesn't preclude adding the station before auth response and sending an auth response depending on whether it could be added; perhaps we need to set it to authenticated just before sending the frame as well though. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
