mac80211: deauth before flushing STA information
Even after commit "mac80211: deauth when interface is marked down" (e327b847 on Linus tree), userspace still isn't notified when interface goes down. There isn't a problem with this commit, but because of other code changes it doesn't work on kernels >= 2.6.28 (works if same/similar change applied on 2.6.27 for example). The issue is as follows: after commit "mac80211: restructure disassoc/deauth flows" in 2.6.28, the call to ieee80211_sta_deauthenticate added by commit e327b847 will not work: because we do sta_info_flush(local, sdata) inside ieee80211_stop (iface.c), all stations in interface are cleared, so when calling ieee80211_sta_deauthenticate->ieee80211_set_disassoc (mlme.c), inside ieee80211_set_disassoc we have this in the beginning: sta = sta_info_get(local, ifsta->bssid); if (!sta) { The !sta check triggers, thus the function returns early and ieee80211_sta_send_apinfo(sdata, ifsta) later isn't called, so wpa_supplicant/userspace isn't notified with SIOCGIWAP. This commit moves deauthentication to before flushing STA info (sta_info_flush), thus the above can't happen and userspace is really notified when interface goes down. Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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