linux/net
Stanislaw Gruszka 6211dd12da mac80211: fix direct probe auth
We send direct probe to broadcast address, as some APs do not respond to
unicast PROBE frames when unassociated. Broadcast frames are not acked,
so we can not use that for trigger MLME state machine, but we need to
use old timeout mechanism.

This fixes authentication timed out like below:

[ 1024.671974] wlan6: authenticate with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe
[ 1024.694125] wlan6: direct probe to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
[ 1024.695450] wlan6: direct probe to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 2/3)
[ 1024.700586] wlan6: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 3/3)
[ 1024.701441] wlan6: authentication with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe timed out

With fix, we have:

[ 4524.198978] wlan6: authenticate with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe
[ 4524.220692] wlan6: direct probe to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
[ 4524.421784] wlan6: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 2/3)
[ 4524.423272] wlan6: authenticated
[ 4524.423811] wlan6: associate with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
[ 4524.427492] wlan6: RX AssocResp from 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-05-17 13:59:18 +02:00
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9p Lots of virtio work which wasn't quite ready for last merge window. Plus 2013-05-02 14:14:04 -07:00
802 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-04-22 20:32:51 -04:00
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appletalk appletalk: info leak in ->getname() 2013-04-25 01:47:58 -04:00
atm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
ax25 ax25: fix info leak via msg_name in ax25_recvmsg() 2013-04-07 16:28:00 -04:00
batman-adv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-04-30 03:55:20 -04:00
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bridge bridge: fix race with topology change timer 2013-05-03 16:08:58 -04:00
caif caif: Remove bouncing address for Daniel Martensson 2013-04-23 13:25:51 -04:00
can Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
ceph libceph: use slab cache for osd client requests 2013-05-02 11:58:41 -05:00
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dcb rtnetlink: Remove passing of attributes into rtnl_doit functions 2013-03-22 10:31:16 -04:00
dccp tcp: Remove TCPCT 2013-03-17 14:35:13 -04:00
decnet decnet: remove duplicated include from dn_table.c 2013-04-07 17:12:01 -04:00
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dsa dsa: fix freeing of sparse port allocation 2013-03-25 12:23:41 -04:00
ethernet net: add ETH_P_802_3_MIN 2013-03-28 01:20:42 -04:00
ieee802154 ieee802154/nl-mac.c: make some MLME operations optional 2013-04-08 12:00:16 -04:00
ipv4 gso: Handle Trans-Ether-Bridging protocol in skb_network_protocol() 2013-05-08 13:13:30 -07:00
ipv6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
ipx hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
irda Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
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key Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec 2013-03-27 14:07:04 -04:00
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-04-07 18:37:01 -04:00
lapb
llc llc: Fix missing msg_namelen update in llc_ui_recvmsg() 2013-04-07 16:28:01 -04:00
mac80211 mac80211: fix direct probe auth 2013-05-17 13:59:18 +02:00
mac802154 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-04-30 03:55:20 -04:00
netfilter Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
netlabel netlabel: fix build problems when CONFIG_IPV6=n 2013-03-08 11:33:51 -05:00
netlink netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
netrom netrom: info leak in ->getname() 2013-04-25 01:47:58 -04:00
nfc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-04-30 03:55:20 -04:00
openvswitch openvswitch: Remove unneeded ovs_netdev_get_ifindex() 2013-04-30 00:19:11 -04:00
packet packet: tpacket_v3: do not trigger bug() on wrong header status 2013-05-03 16:10:33 -04:00
phonet rtnetlink: Remove passing of attributes into rtnl_doit functions 2013-03-22 10:31:16 -04:00
rds net/rds: zero last byte for strncpy 2013-03-08 00:35:44 -05:00
rfkill Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next 2013-04-22 14:58:14 -04:00
rose rose: fix info leak via msg_name in rose_recvmsg() 2013-04-07 16:28:02 -04:00
rxrpc
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
sctp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
sunrpc More NFS client bugfixes for 3.10 2013-05-09 10:24:54 -07:00
tipc tipc: potential divide by zero in tipc_link_recv_fragment() 2013-05-06 16:16:52 -04:00
unix af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields 2013-05-01 15:13:49 -04:00
vmw_vsock Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2013-04-30 03:55:20 -04:00
wimax
wireless cfg80211: fix sending WoWLAN TCP wakeup settings 2013-05-16 22:38:09 +02:00
x25 x25: use proc_remove_subtree() 2013-04-09 14:13:35 -04:00
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-05-02 14:53:12 -07:00
compat.c
Kconfig netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Makefile
nonet.c
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sysctl_net.c