On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:49:41AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:52:56AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:05 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>>
> >> --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
> >> +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c
> >> @@ -3030,9 +3030,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_data(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx)
> >> memcpy(dst, hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN);
> >> memcpy(src, hdr->addr3, ETH_ALEN);
> >>
> >> - if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA) {
> >> + if (sdata->type != IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA ||
> >> + (is_multicast_ether_addr(dst) &&
> >> + !compare_ether_addr(src, dev->dev_addr)))
> >> return TXRX_DROP;
>> I can confirm that this works (applies if you s/ieee80211.c/rx.c/) for
>> IPv6 link local addresses, and it's definitely the right thing to do
>> here.
> Yes, seems so. FWIW, this patch is in later Fedora kernels.
> Unfortunately (due to the ieee80211.c -> rx.c issue you mentioned)
> applying this to 2.6.23 conflicts with patches already queued for
> 2.6.24. Since my experiments show that git doesn't help much in this
> instance, I'll need to work something out with Dave M. if we are to
> get this into 2.6.23.
> If nothing else, I suppose we can just wait for 2.6.23 and send this
> patch to -stable. Would that burn anyone's biscuits?
Suits me. The only machine this is currently relevant to is tracking
wireless-dev#evertything for the moment.
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