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mac80211: fix no-op authorized transitions
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When userspace attempts to authorize a station
that is already authorized, nothing happens as
you'd expect. Similarly, when it unauthorizes
a station that is associated, nothing happens.

However, when it unauthorizes a station that
isn't even associated yet, we erroneously try
to move the station to associated. This seems
to happen occasionally as a result of a race
when wpa_supplicant attempts to unauthorize
the port in managed mode. Particularly with my
new patches to keep stations, it can then move
a station into ASSOCIATED state before we have
really associated, which is really confusing.

I introduced this bug in
"mac80211: refactor station state transitions"

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg authored and John W. Linville committed Jan 13, 2012
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/mac80211/cfg.c
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Expand Up @@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static int sta_apply_parameters(struct ieee80211_local *local,
if (set & BIT(NL80211_STA_FLAG_AUTHORIZED))
ret = sta_info_move_state_checked(sta,
IEEE80211_STA_AUTHORIZED);
else
else if (test_sta_flag(sta, WLAN_STA_AUTHORIZED))
ret = sta_info_move_state_checked(sta,
IEEE80211_STA_ASSOC);
if (ret)
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