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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Reject disconnect commands except from conn_owner

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Andrew Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Reject NL80211_CMD_DISCONNECT, NL80211_CMD_DISASSOCIATE,
> NL80211_CMD_DEAUTHENTICATE and NL80211_CMD_ASSOCIATE commands
> from clients other than the connection owner set in the connect,
> authenticate or associate commands, if it was set.
>
> The main point of this check is to prevent chaos when two processes
> try to use nl80211 at the same time, it's not a security measure.
> The same thing should possibly be done for JOIN_IBSS/LEAVE_IBSS and
> START_AP/STOP_AP.

s-o-b missing.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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