[PATCH] ath10k: fix station authorization

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue Oct 8 15:09:52 EDT 2013


Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> writes:

> 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.

Actually I'll take this back. After this patch even ping doesn't work
with D-Link DIR-865L as AP using 10.1.389 firmware. So I have to drop
this patch.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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