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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: fix PORT_AUTHORIZED wording to reflect behavior

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Arend,

On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 09:20 -0700, James Prestwood wrote:
> The CMD_PORT_AUTHORIZED event was described as an event which indicated
> a successfully completed 4-way handshake. But the behavior was
> not as advertized. The only driver which uses this is brcmfmac, and
> this driver only sends the event after a successful 8021x-FT roam.
> 
> This prevents userspace applications from knowing if the 4-way completed
> on:
> 
> 1. Normal 8021x connects
> 2. Normal PSK connections
> 3. FT-PSK roams
> 
> wpa_supplicant handles this incorrect behavior by just completing
> the connection after association, before the 4-way has completed.
> If the 4-way ends up failing it disconnects at that point.

Can you comment on this?

We do have an (still out-of-tree, and probably will remain that way
since the firmware never really took off) driver that sends it in all
the cases that we documented ...

johannes




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