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Revision 8ab65b03b7893da4a49009e7e356e36e27b0c407 authored by Jan-Espen Pettersen on 25 August 2008, 18:29:22 UTC, committed by John W. Linville on 27 August 2008, 00:06:33 UTC
The association request includes a list of supported data rates.

802.11b: 4 supported rates.
802.11g: 12 (8 + 4) supported rates.
802.11a: 8 supported rates.

The rates tag of the assoc request has room for only 8 rates. In case of
802.11g an extended rate tag is appended. However in net/wireless/mlme.c
an extended (empty) rate tag is also appended if the number of rates is
exact 8. This empty (length=0) extended rates tag causes some APs to
deny association with code 18 (unsupported rates). These APs include my
ZyXEL G-570U, and according to Tomas Winkler som Cisco APs.

'If count == 8' has been used to check for the need for an extended rates
tag. But count would also be equal to 8 if the for loop exited because of
no more supported rates. Therefore a check for count being less than
rates_len would seem more correct.

Thanks to:
 * Dan Williams for newbie guidance
 * Tomas Winkler for confirming the problem

Signed-off-by: Jan-Espen Pettersen <sigsegv@radiotube.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Tip revision: d1221cea11fca0f6946bdd032a45b22cecfc0f99 authored by Linus Torvalds on 13 September 2022, 13:11:38 UTC
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