[PATCH] wpa_auth: deplete group rekey eloop handler for strict rekeying

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Tue Oct 31 09:26:56 PDT 2017


On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:06:10AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> When strict group rekeying is in effect, every station that leaves
> will cause a rekeying to happen 0.5s after leaving. However, if a
> lot of stations join/leave, the current code can postponing this
> rekeying forever, since it always re-registers the handling with a
> 0.5s timeout.
> 
> Use eloop_deplete_timeout() to address that, only registering the
> timeout from scratch if it wasn't pending.

Thanks, applied.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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