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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-04-24 15:15:25 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-05-06 15:14:38 -0400
commit16cf438a1eca2b7206bd7ac7763637c2a87c00c6 (patch)
tree2da715b1c9bb8ed4f828a340643d6bbc1a131e29 /drivers/net/wireless/ath
parentd91f190c412aff940a46cabaccf114361c133605 (diff)
mac80211: fix probe response processing
Due to the use of a _REQ_DIRECT_PROBE bit, which is unnecessary (and I wonder why it was done that way), an interesting situation can arise: 1) we try to probe an access point 2) the AP doesn't response in time 3) we tell userspace that we gave up 4) the AP suddenly responds 5) we auth/assoc with the AP I've seen 4) happen in testing with hostapd SIGSTOPped, and when SIGCONTinued it processes the probe requests that came in and send responses. But 5) is not supposed to happen after we tell everybody we've given up on the AP. To fix this, remove the _REQ_DIRECT_PROBE request bit, and process probe responses when we're in the relevant MLME state, namely IEEE80211_STA_MLME_DIRECT_PROBE. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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