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Commit 16cf438a authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville
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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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent d91f190c
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