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

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On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 20:30 +0200, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:
> 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.
> 
Looks fine to me, please resend if you want it in :)

johannes



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