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Re: [PATCH 3.12] mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode

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On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 11:15 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> If an Ad-Hoc node receives packets with the Cell ID or its own MAC
> address as source address, it hits a WARN_ON in sta_info_insert_check()
> With many packets, this can massively spam the logs. One way that this
> can easily happen is through having Cisco APs in the area with rouge AP
> detection and countermeasures enabled.
> Such Cisco APs will regularly send fake beacons, disassoc and deauth
> packets that trigger these warnings.
> 
> To fix this issue, drop such spoofed packets early in the rx path.

Applied.

johannes

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