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authorJouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>2009-06-11 18:19:45 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-06-15 15:05:51 -0400
commit68f2d02669f7102be80aae47155f45e18950d223 (patch)
treed62bac9654a823b14bebabf7f837e2f9acba2260 /net
parente1f8a19e6fc4f6d4267f6d3fe465553c3688f28e (diff)
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mac80211: Do not try to associate with an empty SSID
It looks like some programs (e.g., NM) are setting an empty SSID with SIOCSIWESSID in some cases. This seems to trigger mac80211 to try to associate with an invalid configuration (wildcard SSID) which will result in failing associations (or odd issues, potentially including kernel panic with some drivers) if the AP were to actually accept this anyway). Only start association process if the SSID is actually set. This speeds up connection with NM in number of cases and avoids sending out broken association request frames. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mlme.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index d779c57..e5de9ce 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2445,6 +2445,14 @@ void ieee80211_sta_req_auth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
ieee80211_set_disassoc(sdata, true, true,
WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING);
+ if (ifmgd->ssid_len == 0) {
+ /*
+ * Only allow association to be started if a valid SSID
+ * is configured.
+ */
+ return;
+ }
+
if (!(ifmgd->flags & IEEE80211_STA_EXT_SME) ||
ifmgd->state != IEEE80211_STA_MLME_ASSOCIATE)
set_bit(IEEE80211_STA_REQ_AUTH, &ifmgd->request);
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