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Re: [RFC 2/5] mac80211: handle TDLS high-level commands and frames

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 14:40, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The race is even worse - from queuing until the actual Tx, we could
>> have disconnected from this AP and connected do a totally different
>> one. But this shouldn't happen in reality (and we can add some guards
>> to wpa_supplicant to make sure).
>> Do you see this as a security threat?
>
> I don't really know :-) I just saw the possible race here. If you remove
> the TDLS station entries when disassociating then it shouldn't be an
> issue, right? Since you require a station entry pretty early on anyway.

As discussed on IRC - this race is not really an issue. In the next
version of the patch stations will be purged by kernel-mode on
disassociation.

Arik
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