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Commit 6211dd12 authored by Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar Stanislaw Gruszka Committed by Johannes Berg
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mac80211: fix direct probe auth 



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)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent e248ad30

net/mac80211/mlme.c

+6 −6
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -3321,10 +3321,6 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_auth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) 
	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) {
@@ -3358,6 +3354,10 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_auth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) 
			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,
@@ -3381,12 +3381,12 @@ static int ieee80211_probe_auth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata) 
		 * 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);