[MAC80211]: STA reassociation improvements (8a69aa93) · Commits · 戴 / test

My cheapy D-Link AP behaves strangely w.r.t reassociations. The following sequence of commands causes me to lose association and to be unable to regain it: ifconfig eth8 down ifconfig eth8 up iwconfig eth8 essid <x> This is because mac80211 tries to reassociate, rather than just associate. My AP replies with an association response (not a reassociation response...) denying the association with code 12: "Association denied due to reason outside the scope of this standard" mac80211 tries this reassociation another 4 times or so before finally giving up. I see 2 problems here: 1. bringing the interface down and up again should be resetting interface state i.e. after the interface is brought down, it should have no memory of if or where it was previously associated 2. after the first reassociation fails, mac80211 should fall back to standard association for the next attempt Signed-off-by:

Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by:

Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:

John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

net/mac80211/ieee80211.c

+13 −0

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		@@ -375,6 +375,18 @@ static void ieee80211_start_hard_monitor(struct ieee80211_local *local)
		}
		}

		static void ieee80211_if_open(struct net_device *dev)
		{
		struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);

		switch (sdata->type) {
		case IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA:
		case IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_IBSS:
		sdata->u.sta.prev_bssid_set = 0;
		break;
		}
		}

		static int ieee80211_open(struct net_device *dev)
		{
		struct ieee80211_sub_if_data sdata, nsdata;
		@@ -408,6 +420,7 @@ static int ieee80211_open(struct net_device *dev)
		local->hw.conf.flags \|= IEEE80211_CONF_RADIOTAP;
		return 0;
		}
		ieee80211_if_open(dev);
		ieee80211_start_soft_monitor(local);

		conf.if_id = dev->ifindex;

net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c

+4 −2

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		@@ -1187,7 +1187,9 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(struct net_device *dev,
		if (status_code != WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
		printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: AP denied association (code=%d)\n",
		dev->name, status_code);
		if (status_code == WLAN_STATUS_REASSOC_NO_ASSOC)
		/* if this was a reassociation, ensure we try a "full"
		* association next time. This works around some broken APs
		* which do not correctly reject reassociation requests. */
		ifsta->prev_bssid_set = 0;
		return;
		}

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