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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: auth retries if AP sends temporary deauth

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On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 00:33 -0700, Paul Stewart wrote:

> If a STA gets sent a DEAUTH from an AP it is actively trying to
> authenticate to, mac80211 currently shoots itself in the foot by
> letting  ieee80211_sta_rx_mgmt() clean up state for the connection
> (removing an entry from authtry_bsses[] in wireless/mlme.c),
> but the retry loop contiinues, leading to a kernel warning but no
> connection.
> 
> An AP is allowed by the spec to return DEAUTH as a result of a
> temporary failure, one of which is "you are already authenticated
> -- what are you talking about?"

Do you know the reason code for that? I think the check here should be
more fine-grained.

johannes

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