This function is both updating the hostapd-internal sta->flags value and
sending out the AP-STA-CONNECTED control interface message. When
authorizing a STA, the call to this function is followed by a driver
command to update the flags of the STA entry in the driver. That has a
race condition at least for UML time-travel since the AP-STA-CONNECTED
event is used as a message to wait for before running a connectivity
test or some other operation that depends on the data connection being
in working condition.
Split the function into two steps so that the driver STA entry update
can be done between those two steps for the cases where it matters for
the race condition. In other words, send the AP-STA-CONNECTED message
only after having authorized the STA in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
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