[PATCH] hostapd: Remove redundant freeing of STA list entries

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun May 19 15:28:24 EDT 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:49:14AM +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:55:00PM +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:44:04PM +0530, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> > > hostapd_flush_old_stations does this appropriately
> > > after flushing the STA entries in the driver.
> > 
> > The hostapd_free_stas() call in hostapd_flush_old_stations() is
> > conditional, i.e., the call here would still be needed for the
> > driver=none case.
> 
> does driver=none maintains a sta list ?

Probably not for most use cases, but it could potentially be used for
RSN pre-authentication testing where a STA entry may be created.

Does this patch fix something or is it just cleanup?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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