With WEXT, it happens frequently that the SME requests an authentication but then deauthenticates right away because some new parameters came along. Every time this happens we print a deauth message and send a deauth frame, but both of that is rather confusing. Avoid it by aborting the authentication process silently, and telling cfg80211 about that. The patch looks larger than it really is: __cfg80211_auth_remove() is split out from cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(), there's no new code except __cfg80211_auth_canceled() (a one-liner) and the mac80211 bits (7 new lines of code). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/cfg80211.h | 12 ++++++++++++ net/mac80211/mlme.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ net/wireless/mlme.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/include/net/cfg80211.h 2009-11-19 12:24:42.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/include/net/cfg80211.h 2009-11-19 12:26:13.000000000 +0100 @@ -1839,6 +1839,18 @@ void cfg80211_send_rx_auth(struct net_de void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr); /** + * __cfg80211_auth_canceled - notify cfg80211 that authentication was canceled + * @dev: network device + * @addr: The MAC address of the device with which the authentication timed out + * + * When a pending authentication had no action yet, the driver may decide + * to not send a deauth frame, but in that case must calls this function + * to tell cfg80211 about this decision. It is only valid to call this + * function within the deauth() callback. + */ +void __cfg80211_auth_canceled(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr); + +/** * cfg80211_send_rx_assoc - notification of processed association * @dev: network device * @buf: (re)association response frame (header + body) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/mlme.c 2009-11-19 12:08:36.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/mlme.c 2009-11-19 12:36:14.000000000 +0100 @@ -2508,6 +2508,7 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee8021 struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd; struct ieee80211_mgd_work *wk; const u8 *bssid = NULL; + bool not_auth_yet = false; mutex_lock(&ifmgd->mtx); @@ -2517,6 +2518,8 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee8021 } else list_for_each_entry(wk, &ifmgd->work_list, list) { if (&wk->bss->cbss == req->bss) { bssid = req->bss->bssid; + if (wk->state == IEEE80211_MGD_STATE_PROBE) + not_auth_yet = true; list_del(&wk->list); kfree(wk); break; @@ -2524,6 +2527,20 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee8021 } /* + * If somebody requests authentication and we haven't + * sent out an auth frame yet there's no need to send + * out a deauth frame either. If the state was PROBE, + * then this is the case. If it's AUTH we have sent a + * frame, and if it's IDLE we have completed the auth + * process already. + */ + if (not_auth_yet) { + mutex_unlock(&ifmgd->mtx); + __cfg80211_auth_canceled(sdata->dev, bssid); + return 0; + } + + /* * cfg80211 should catch this ... but it's racy since * we can receive a deauth frame, process it, hand it * to cfg80211 while that's in a locked section already --- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/mlme.c 2009-11-19 12:22:36.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/mlme.c 2009-11-19 12:24:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -243,21 +243,12 @@ void cfg80211_send_disassoc(struct net_d } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_send_disassoc); -void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr) +static void __cfg80211_auth_remove(struct wireless_dev *wdev, const u8 *addr) { - struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr; - struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy; - struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy); int i; bool done = false; - wdev_lock(wdev); - - nl80211_send_auth_timeout(rdev, dev, addr, GFP_KERNEL); - if (wdev->sme_state == CFG80211_SME_CONNECTING) - __cfg80211_connect_result(dev, addr, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, - WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE, - false, NULL); + ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev); for (i = 0; addr && i < MAX_AUTH_BSSES; i++) { if (wdev->authtry_bsses[i] && @@ -272,6 +263,29 @@ void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct n } WARN_ON(!done); +} + +void __cfg80211_auth_canceled(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr) +{ + __cfg80211_auth_remove(dev->ieee80211_ptr, addr); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cfg80211_auth_canceled); + +void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr) +{ + struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr; + struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy; + struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy); + + wdev_lock(wdev); + + nl80211_send_auth_timeout(rdev, dev, addr, GFP_KERNEL); + if (wdev->sme_state == CFG80211_SME_CONNECTING) + __cfg80211_connect_result(dev, addr, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, + WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE, + false, NULL); + + __cfg80211_auth_remove(wdev, addr); wdev_unlock(wdev); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html