[PATCH 24/25] MBO: Always accept BTM request with disassociation imminent bit set

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Feb 21 00:30:25 PST 2016


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 04:53:59PM +0200, Ilan Peer wrote:
> According to Multiband Operation specification (r17, section 3.5.2),
> a BSS Transition Management Request with the disassociation imminent
> bit set should always be accepted.

The spec includes an exception for this: "another AP, if one [is]
available".

> This is enforced in case the request did not include a candidate list.
> However, in case a candidate list was included but none of the APs in
> the candidate list was found in the scan results, the request is
> rejected.
> 
> Fix that by always accepting a request with the disassociation imminent
> bit set even if no roaming candidate was found.

This does not sound fixing to me.. Surely the request need to be
rejected if the requested action cannot be performed.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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