netdev - Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Report connected BSS with cfg80211_connect

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Date:   Mon, 1 Feb 2021 14:03:26 -0800
From:   Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To:     Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi.bhat@....com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "<netdev@...r.kernel.org>" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Report connected BSS with cfg80211_connect_bss()

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:07 PM Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org> wrote:
> When a network is moved or reconfigured on the different channel, there
> can be multiple BSSes with the same BSSID and SSID in scan result
> before the old one expires. Then, it can cause cfg80211_connect_result
> to map current_bss to a bss with the wrong channel.
>
> Let mwifiex_cfg80211_assoc return the selected BSS and then the caller
> can report it cfg80211_connect_bss.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yen-lin Lai <yenlinlai@...omium.org>

This seems sane to me:

Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>