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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix receiving deauth

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Hi Johannes,

> > Marcel reported a warning, which quite obviously comes
> > from an oversight in the code handling deauth frames,
> > and which resulted in multiple follow-up warnings due
> > to this missing handling. This patch adds the missing
> > deauth handling (telling cfg80211 about it) and also
> > removes the follow-up warnings since they could happen
> > due to races even if nothing is wrong. I've explained
> > the races in the comments.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> so me current wireless-testing tree now contains the tree from today
> with the oops fix from Luiz, your lockdep fix, Reinette's iwlwifi
> updates and this one. No oopses so far and my connection to the AP stays
> stable. No immediate disconnects anymore. Everything looks good again.

while this fixes the oops and helps with my connect/disconnect issues I
have seen, it doesn't fully fix them. As soon as the AP is something
like more than 5m or 10m away, it connects, disconnects, re-connects
etc. all over again :(

Regards

Marcel


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