Search Linux Wireless

Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: fix deauth before assoc

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When we receive a deauthentication frame before
> having successfully associated, we neither print
> a message nor abort assocation. The former makes
> it hard to debug, while the latter later causes
> a warning in cfg80211 when, as will typically be
> the case, association timed out.
>
> This warning was reported by many, e.g. in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15981,
> but I couldn't initially pinpoint it. I verified
> the fix by hacking hostapd to send a deauth frame
> instead of an association response.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> That previous one didn't even apply to the right tree, how did you ever
> test it? Or did you just fix up the context?

patching file net/mac80211/mlme.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1722 with fuzz 3 (offset 27 lines).
--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux