[PATCH] nl80211: Add MLME assoc work-around for -EEXIST errno
Jouni Malinen
j at w1.fi
Sun Mar 11 03:50:23 PDT 2018
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 12:55:45PM -0800, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
> The 4.9 kernel, at least, can return EEXIST when trying to add
> a station that already exists.
This is a bit confusing commit message since it talks about "assoc" and
adding a station while the code change is actually for authentication
(NL80211_CMD_AUTHENTICATE)..
What is the use case where you see the station (mac80211 STA entry, I'd
assume) being already there?
> diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> @@ -3294,7 +3294,8 @@ retry:
> wpa_dbg(drv->ctx, MSG_INFO,
> "nl80211: MLME command failed (auth): count=%d ret=%d (%s)",
> count, ret, strerror(-ret));
> - if (ret == -EALREADY && count == 1 && params->bssid &&
> + if (((ret == -EALREADY) || (ret == -EEXIST))
> + && count == 1 && params->bssid &&
> !params->local_state_change) {
> /* Nov 9, 2017: Re-enable this...user saw endless loop of
> * hitting this case. Maybe the original reason I put this hack
This does not apply due to a missing "count++" and extra "Nov 9, 2017"
comment, i.e., the baseline is quite different compared to what exists
in hostap.git.
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