p2p negotiation response/confirmation race condition

Eliad Peller eliad at wizery.com
Wed Mar 30 13:37:22 EDT 2011


hi,

i encounter some race condition in the p2p negotiation process:

1. peerA -> peerB - negotiation request (go_intent=5)
2. peerA -> peerB - negotiation request (go_intent=5) (retry)

3. peerB -> peerA - negotiation response(go_intent=7, ssid=DIRECT-AA)
4. peerB -> peerA - negotiation response(go_intent=7, ssid=DIRECT-BB)

5. peerA -> peerB - negotiation confirmation (to (3))

now, peerA will try connecting to DIRECT-AA, while peerB starts a
group with DIRECT-BB ssid.

currently, wpa_supplicant generates a new ssid (p2p_build_ssid) on
each negotiation request processing.
the questions i have are:
1. when should we set the ssid? should the ssid be saved for each dev?
(note that we might have multiple peers trying to connect, so
generating a new global ssid on negotiation start might still race
somehow)

2. what about other non-ssid elements? e.g. the same race applies for
the operating channel as well, as long as we don't take the channel
from the negotiation confirmation (currently, we just check for its
existence)

Eliad.


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