Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:40694 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751618AbdFGQKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2017 12:10:38 -0400 Subject: Re: Wifi-Event for when initial 4-way completes? To: Wojciech Dubowik References: <854f7995-2cc0-3649-2c94-9ef3c219fb73@candelatech.com> Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "hostap@lists.infradead.org" From: Ben Greear Message-ID: <8b8f6fa1-8687-b0f9-03ab-20e8f9ab2c1c@candelatech.com> (sfid-20170607_181148_491996_18DED3B0) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:10:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/07/2017 12:25 AM, Wojciech Dubowik wrote: > Hello Ben, > > I have been using this part of wpa_supplicant to notify that 4-Way handshake is completed. > > around line 868 in wpa_supplicant.c > > #if defined(CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE) || !defined(CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG) > wpa_msg(wpa_s, MSG_INFO, WPA_EVENT_CONNECTED "- Connection to " > MACSTR " completed [id=%d id_str=%s%s]", > MAC2STR(wpa_s->bssid), > ssid ? ssid->id : -1, > ssid && ssid->id_str ? ssid->id_str : "", > fils_hlp_sent ? " FILS_HLP_SENT" : ""); > #endif /* CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE || !CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG */ > > You can pack whatever notification message inside the if statement. Thanks for the hint. How do you receive this? By leaving 'wpa_cli' running? I am having my supplicant manage 64+ station vdevs...is there a way to make it get events from all of them at once so that I don't need 64+ monitor processes? Thanks, Ben > > Br, > > Wojtek > > > On 07/06/17 02:46, Ben Greear wrote: >> I have been tracking down a nasty EAPOL related bug in ath10k, and found something that may be peripheral, or maybe >> it is significant. >> >> My logic is basically to kick supplicant, watch 'iw events', and then when I see something >> like "sta62 (phy #5): connected to 00:0e:8e:f8:73:96", I consider it connected and start >> dhcpd. >> >> But, it appears that the 'connected' message comes out before the EAPOL 4-way completes, so >> I am starting dhclient before the encryption is really set up properly. At best, this slows >> things down and makes dhclient have to retry. >> >> Is there some existing event or state I can probe to determine when the initial 4-way is complete? >> >> In case there is not, maybe that event would be worth adding? >> >> Or, should I hack on supplicant instead and grab the info out of it somehow? >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com