[PATCH] ath10k: fix station authorization

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue Oct 8 14:55:52 EDT 2013


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> Peer authorization should be delayed until
> mac80211 says given station has transitioned into
> authorized state.
>
> The state is propagated from mac80211 for both
> open and protected networks.
>
> This should prevent data traffic to/from given
> station until authorization completes. Until now
> it was probably possible for unauthorized traffic
> to pass leading to possible security issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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