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Re: [PATCH 4/8] mac80211: Allow user space to register for station Rx authentication

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On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 14:24 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> To support Pre Association Security Negotiation (PASN) while already
> associated to one AP, allow user space to register to Rx authentication
> frames, so that the user space logic would be able to receive/handle
> authentication frames from a different AP as part of PASN.
> 
> Note that it is expected that user space would intelligently register
> for Rx authentication frames, i.e., only when PASN is used and configure
> a match filter only for PASN authentication algorithm, as otherwise
> the MLME functionality of mac80211 would be broken.

This literally broke hundreds of wpa_s tests, so I guess it's not
"intelligently register[ing]" for them...

johannes




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