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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-11-19 14:45:42 +0300 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-11-19 19:09:02 +0300 |
| commit | a58ce43f2fb17b728395ff530f019ca53c80145f (patch) | |
| tree | 1de5d2680d42de12902ccb85e99bc86f63eebf58 /include/net | |
| parent | 7351c6bd482712e5e3ec9dffc547de0e0863efb0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a58ce43f2fb17b728395ff530f019ca53c80145f.tar.xz | |
mac80211: avoid spurious deauth frames/messages
With WEXT, it happens frequently that the SME
requests an authentication but then deauthenticates
right away because some new parameters came along.
Every time this happens we print a deauth message
and send a deauth frame, but both of that is rather
confusing. Avoid it by aborting the authentication
process silently, and telling cfg80211 about that.
The patch looks larger than it really is:
__cfg80211_auth_remove() is split out from
cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(), there's no new code
except __cfg80211_auth_canceled() (a one-liner) and
the mac80211 bits (7 new lines of code).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/cfg80211.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h index d1e05aeb0c09..a6492e9bca97 100644 --- a/include/net/cfg80211.h +++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h @@ -1839,6 +1839,18 @@ void cfg80211_send_rx_auth(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf, size_t len); void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr); /** + * __cfg80211_auth_canceled - notify cfg80211 that authentication was canceled + * @dev: network device + * @addr: The MAC address of the device with which the authentication timed out + * + * When a pending authentication had no action yet, the driver may decide + * to not send a deauth frame, but in that case must calls this function + * to tell cfg80211 about this decision. It is only valid to call this + * function within the deauth() callback. + */ +void __cfg80211_auth_canceled(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr); + +/** * cfg80211_send_rx_assoc - notification of processed association * @dev: network device * @buf: (re)association response frame (header + body) |