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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: tx: do not drop non-robust mgmt to non-MFP stas.

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On 04/07/2012 11:35, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:13 +0200, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
>> Found this while trying to manage auth  frames in userspace
>> on a IBSS RSN network.
>> I'm  a bit surprised that drop_unencrypted is disabled both
>> in AP and managed mode, but only enabled in IBSS RSN, which
>> does not support MFP, yet.
> 
> Hmmm. Yes, all this seems a bit messy. Can we clean this up first?

The whole function is a bit messy. some clean ups would be nice
but it is too easy to break corner cases.

> 
> Maybe something like this?
> http://p.sipsolutions.net/d68a99dd3d9b1ab1.txt

No problem for me. I didn't want that patch to too intrusive at first.

Do you want to apply it yourself ? or should i include it in a series ?

> The whole drop_unencrypted seems strange to start with though...

what to you find strange ? that it is not used in a ESS, or how it works
? or both ?
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