Wifi-Event for when initial 4-way completes?

[Arend van Spriel]

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On 6/7/2017 2:46 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> I have been tracking down a nasty EAPOL related bug in ath10k, and found 
> something that may be peripheral, or maybe
> it is significant.
> 
> My logic is basically to kick supplicant, watch 'iw events', and then 
> when I see something
> like "sta62 (phy #5): connected to 00:0e:8e:f8:73:96", I consider it 
> connected and start
> dhcpd.
> 
> But, it appears that the 'connected' message comes out before the EAPOL 
> 4-way completes, so
> I am starting dhclient before the encryption is really set up properly.  
> At best, this slows
> things down and makes dhclient have to retry.
> 
> Is there some existing event or state I can probe to determine when the 
> initial 4-way is complete?
> 
> In case there is not, maybe that event would be worth adding?
> 
> Or, should I hack on supplicant instead and grab the info out of it 
> somehow?

The completion of the 4-way handshake is a supplicant state. Reaching 
that state the PTK is set in the driver. It fires a CTRL-EVENT to the 
wpa_s control interface. Actually found a python script eapol_test.py in 
hostap repo that catches that event. So you may check it out.

Gr. AvS