This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211: fix direct probe auth
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-fix-direct-probe-auth.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6211dd12da609bc6893b9c3182630b494737ec4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 13:43:04 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix direct probe auth
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6211dd12da609bc6893b9c3182630b494737ec4b upstream.
We send direct probe to broadcast address, as some APs do not respond to
unicast PROBE frames when unassociated. Broadcast frames are not acked,
so we can not use that for trigger MLME state machine, but we need to
use old timeout mechanism.
This fixes authentication timed out like below:
[ 1024.671974] wlan6: authenticate with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe
[ 1024.694125] wlan6: direct probe to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
[ 1024.695450] wlan6: direct probe to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 2/3)
[ 1024.700586] wlan6: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 3/3)
[ 1024.701441] wlan6: authentication with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe timed out
With fix, we have:
[ 4524.198978] wlan6: authenticate with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe
[ 4524.220692] wlan6: direct probe to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
[ 4524.421784] wlan6: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 2/3)
[ 4524.423272] wlan6: authenticated
[ 4524.423811] wlan6: associate with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
[ 4524.427492] wlan6: RX AssocResp from 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/mlme.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -3182,10 +3182,6 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_auth(struct i
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!auth_data))
return -EINVAL;
- if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS)
- tx_flags = IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS |
- IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_MLME_CONN_TX;
-
auth_data->tries++;
if (auth_data->tries > IEEE80211_AUTH_MAX_TRIES) {
@@ -3219,6 +3215,10 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_auth(struct i
auth_data->expected_transaction = trans;
}
+ if (local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS)
+ tx_flags = IEEE80211_TX_CTL_REQ_TX_STATUS |
+ IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_MLME_CONN_TX;
+
ieee80211_send_auth(sdata, trans, auth_data->algorithm, status,
auth_data->data, auth_data->data_len,
auth_data->bss->bssid,
@@ -3242,12 +3242,12 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_auth(struct i
* will not answer to direct packet in unassociated state.
*/
ieee80211_send_probe_req(sdata, NULL, ssidie + 2, ssidie[1],
- NULL, 0, (u32) -1, true, tx_flags,
+ NULL, 0, (u32) -1, true, 0,
auth_data->bss->channel, false);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
- if (!(local->hw.flags & IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS)) {
+ if (tx_flags == 0) {
auth_data->timeout = jiffies + IEEE80211_AUTH_TIMEOUT;
ifmgd->auth_data->timeout_started = true;
run_again(ifmgd, auth_data->timeout);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/mac80211-use-just-spin_lock-in-ieee80211_get_tkip_p2k.patch
queue-3.9/mac80211-fix-direct-probe-auth.patch
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