EAPOL issue when switching between SSIDs

[Jouni Malinen]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0700, David Bird wrote:
> There is an issue with associating to SSIDs using WPA when there are
> multiple SSIDs being controlled by hostapd and when you are switching
> between SSIDs. When processing the EAPOL packet, the array of virtual
> APs (iface->bss) is searched looking for the station that sent the
> packet in order to identify which signal context should be used during
> processing. The first signal with the station in it's list gets used in
> the ieee802_1x_receive() function. However, even after a station has
> disassociated from a signal, it remains in that signals list of stations
> pending an inactivity timeout. This leads to the wrong signal context
> (one where the station had already disassociated) being used in some
> cases (if the current/active bss entry appears in the list AFTER one
> where the station has just disassociated from) for EAPOL processing. The
> attached patch checks for the WLAN_STA_ASSOC flag before assuming it
> found the 'right' signal context for the given station. 

Thanks! Applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA