I am UjjaL Roy from Namkhana, currently living at Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Writing WiFi driver.


Dec 16, 2013

Fixed cfg80211 subsystem bug in Linux Kernel

cfg80211: fix WARN_ON for re-association to the expired BSS

Fixed bug in cfg80211 subsystem of 802.11 wireless networking in the Linux Kernel. The fix is accepted by the maintainer of wireless Linux "Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>". The patch is available from the Kernel version 3.13. The communication can be found in the following links -

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/116539
http://markmail.org/thread/25weqerbxendnefs

Similar type of problem is also reported by Fedora project and can be found in https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/problems/1349035. My fixes may help those problems.

From now onward the fix can be found in the Linux Kernel tree. You can find the solve by searching google as "Ujjal Roy cfg80211".

The patch is now updated to the Kernel tree and can be found on the link below -
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless.git/commit/?id=4c4d684a55fc01dac6bee696efc56b96d0e6c03a

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