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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: handle auth failure returned with unmatching auth algo

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On 12 June 2012 16:57, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eyal Shapira <eyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Some Netgear APs like WNAP210 have a quirk behavior when
>> configured for WEP Shared. They send an auth response with algo
>> SHARED and status code NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_ALG (13) when being
>> sent a request made with auth algo OPEN. Enable such response to
>> propagate to userspace instead of discarding it so wpa_s can
>> reattempt to auth with SHARED.
>>
>> Reported-by: Noam Shaked <noams@xxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Eyal Shapira <eyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]
>
>> -     if (auth_alg != ifmgd->auth_data->algorithm ||
>> +     if ((auth_alg != ifmgd->auth_data->algorithm &&
>> +          status_code != WLAN_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_ALG) ||
>
> I think a small comment in the code would be nice, like
> "WLAN_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_ALG is a workaround for Netgear
> WNAPxxx".
>
Sure. I'll add that in v2.

> --
> Kalle Valo
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