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, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index f399547306c3..6dc7b5ad9a41 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -2508,6 +2508,7 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
         struct ieee80211_if_managed *ifmgd = &sdata->u.mgd;
         struct ieee80211_mgd_work *wk;
         const u8 *bssid = NULL;
+        bool not_auth_yet = false;
 
         mutex_lock(&ifmgd->mtx);
 
@@ -2517,6 +2518,8 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
         } else list_for_each_entry(wk, &ifmgd->work_list, list) {
                 if (&wk->bss->cbss == req->bss) {
                         bssid = req->bss->bssid;
+                        if (wk->state == IEEE80211_MGD_STATE_PROBE)
+                                not_auth_yet = true;
                         list_del(&wk->list);
                         kfree(wk);
                         break;
@@ -2524,6 +2527,20 @@ int ieee80211_mgd_deauth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
         }
 
         /*
+         * If somebody requests authentication and we haven't
+         * sent out an auth frame yet there's no need to send
+         * out a deauth frame either. If the state was PROBE,
+         * then this is the case. If it's AUTH we have sent a
+         * frame, and if it's IDLE we have completed the auth
+         * process already.
+         */
+        if (not_auth_yet) {
+                mutex_unlock(&ifmgd->mtx);
+                __cfg80211_auth_canceled(sdata->dev, bssid);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        /*
          * cfg80211 should catch this ... but it's racy since
          * we can receive a deauth frame, process it, hand it
          * to cfg80211 while that's in a locked section already