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

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On 28 April 2018 at 15:07, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

True, thanks.  Also I was going to send this as an RFC.

Best regards



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