Re: [PATCH v1] check for FT support when selecting FT suites

Brian Norris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.hostap
Message-ID <CA+ASDXPqAne2tN4jgRjor8SCHo8BLNmAukCQbMPkpJxjUttB=g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 5:16 PM Matthew Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A driver supports FT if it either supports SME or the
> NL80211_CMD_UPDATE_FT_IES command. When selecting AKM suites,
> wpa_supplicant currently doesn't take into account whether or not either
> of those conditions are met. This can cause association failures e.g. when
> an AP supports both WPA-EAP and FT-EAP but the driver doesn't support FT
> (supplicant will decide to do FT-EAP since it is unaware the driver
> doesn't support it). This change allows an FT suite to be selected only
> when the driver also supports FT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wang <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <[email protected]>
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