Commit 66174bbe authored Apr 01, 2009 by Jouni Malinen Committed by John W. Linville Apr 22, 2009

mac80211: Report rejected association to user space SME



When using nl80211 association, we need to send association response
with a failure code to user space SME instead of just internally
trying to send out the same (re)association request again couple of
times. This fixes problems in association process getting stuck on a
failure when user space is not notified in any way that something
actually failed.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 5ef2d41a

net/mac80211/mlme.c

+5 −0

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		@@ -1374,6 +1374,11 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
		* association next time. This works around some broken APs
		* which do not correctly reject reassociation requests. */
		ifmgd->flags &= ~IEEE80211_STA_PREV_BSSID_SET;
		cfg80211_send_rx_assoc(sdata->dev, (u8 *) mgmt, len);
		if (ifmgd->flags & IEEE80211_STA_EXT_SME) {
		/* Wait for SME to decide what to do next */
		ifmgd->state = IEEE80211_STA_MLME_DISABLED;
		}
		return;
		}

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