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

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On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 09:53 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 5/22/2018 2:46 AM, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Isn't this V2? What has changed since last time?

It was RFC before I guess.

Doesn't look different to me.

johannes




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