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Change the nl80211 driver in wpa_supplicant to correctly handle connecting to a new AP through cfg80211 without SME capability. As before, the driver will disconnect from the previously associated AP, but now we attempt to immediately connect to our intended AP. This prevents us from blacklisting the AP we were trying to connect to because of a semantic mismatch between cfg80211 and wpa_supplicant. The disconnect/connect patch generates a local disconnect nl80211 event which we discard because we're already correctly tracking the pending association request. In detail: cfg80211 does not support connecting to a new BSS while already connected to another BSS, if the underlying driver doesn't support separate authenticate and associate commands. wpa_supplicant is written to expect that this is a supported operation, except for a little error handling that disconnects from the current BSS when roaming fails and relies on autoconnect logic to reconnect later. However, this failure to connect is incorrectly attributed to the new AP we attempted to associate with, rather than a local condition in cfg80211. The combined effect of these two conditions is that full-mac drivers accessible through cfg80211 but without SME capability take a long time to roam across BSS's because wpa_supplicant will: 1) Fail to associate for local reasons 2) Disconnect and return that the association request failed 3) Blacklist the association target (incorrectly) 4) Do a scan 5) Pick a less desirable AP to associate with Signed-hostap: Christoper Wiley <wiley@chromium.org> |
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