On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:43 +0300, Teemu Paasikivi wrote: > In cfg80211_send_rx_auth function there was a warning if bssid of the received > authentication message was not found from the authtry_bsses table. > > During the beginning of the authentication there is a small time window, when > handling of the received deauthentication message can cause information > for the access point to be removed from the authtry_bsses table before > authentication response is received. This triggers the warning. This has > been seen happening with several access points occasionally. At least > one of those (Asus) has been seen to send spurious deauthentication > messages after deauthentication. Possibly this warning could be triggered also > by forged deauthentication messages sent at a correct time. This doesn't seem right. Why is mac80211 not preventing those messages from bubbling up in that case? FWIW, this check is there for a reason -- we want to avoid telling userspace twice that we disconnected from a given AP, and we shouldn't be processing it anyway. johannes -- 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
