mac80211: avoid spurious deauth frames/messages

With WEXT, it happens frequently that the SME
requests an authentication but then deauthenticates
right away because some new parameters came along.
Every time this happens we print a deauth message
and send a deauth frame, but both of that is rather
confusing. Avoid it by aborting the authentication
process silently, and telling cfg80211 about that.

The patch looks larger than it really is:
__cfg80211_auth_remove() is split out from
cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(), there's no new code
except __cfg80211_auth_canceled() (a one-liner) and
the mac80211 bits (7 new lines of code).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/net/wireless/mlme.c b/net/wireless/mlme.c
index 622af56..1001db4 100644
--- a/net/wireless/mlme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/mlme.c
@@ -243,21 +243,12 @@ void cfg80211_send_disassoc(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *buf, size_t len)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_send_disassoc);
 
-void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
+static void __cfg80211_auth_remove(struct wireless_dev *wdev, const u8 *addr)
 {
-	struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
-	struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy;
-	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
 	int i;
 	bool done = false;
 
-	wdev_lock(wdev);
-
-	nl80211_send_auth_timeout(rdev, dev, addr, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (wdev->sme_state == CFG80211_SME_CONNECTING)
-		__cfg80211_connect_result(dev, addr, NULL, 0, NULL, 0,
-					  WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE,
-					  false, NULL);
+	ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);
 
 	for (i = 0; addr && i < MAX_AUTH_BSSES; i++) {
 		if (wdev->authtry_bsses[i] &&
@@ -272,6 +263,29 @@ void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
 	}
 
 	WARN_ON(!done);
+}
+
+void __cfg80211_auth_canceled(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
+{
+	__cfg80211_auth_remove(dev->ieee80211_ptr, addr);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cfg80211_auth_canceled);
+
+void cfg80211_send_auth_timeout(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
+{
+	struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
+	struct wiphy *wiphy = wdev->wiphy;
+	struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev = wiphy_to_dev(wiphy);
+
+	wdev_lock(wdev);
+
+	nl80211_send_auth_timeout(rdev, dev, addr, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (wdev->sme_state == CFG80211_SME_CONNECTING)
+		__cfg80211_connect_result(dev, addr, NULL, 0, NULL, 0,
+					  WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE,
+					  false, NULL);
+
+	__cfg80211_auth_remove(wdev, addr);
 
 	wdev_unlock(wdev);
 }